[Xapian-discuss] Powered by Xapian

[Daniel Ménard]

Hi,

I'm not so far, by now, of publicly releasing the next version of our 
web site which is extensively using Xapian, so I thought it was time to 
say "thank you" by adding in the footer and in the "credits" page of my 
site the Xapian logo with a link back to the Xapian web site.

I was surprised to discover how hard it was for me to find how to do... 
I'm not a novice user and I know pretty well the Xapian web site and its 
content, but I only found :
- the "MoreUsers" entry of the wiki [1] which states "We'd love a 
reciprocal "powered by Xapian" or similar link to help spread the word" 
but does not provide any logo or guidelines on how to do so;
- the "Users" page of the main web site [2] which contains a "Powered by 
Xapian" logo but does not if/how this logo can be used.

I know that creating a reciprocal link is not a requirement (and I 
appreciate this point) but it would be easier for users wishing to 
create such a link to have a dedicated page (e.g. like this one [3]...)
Looking at the "current users" web page, it seems that there are very 
few web sites which are showing the "powered by xapian" button (e.g. gmane).
It would help to spread the word about Xapian...

For now, some questions:
- can I use the "powered by" logo found on [2]? what is the license? (I 
guess the answer, but...)
- does this logo exist in other dimensions/backgrounds?
- can I modify it? (as is, it is quite large, and the textual part of 
the logo does not suit well on a French web site)
- does anybody have a vectorial version (svg, eps..) of this logo or of 
the big Xapian logo [4]? (it would help)

Cheers,

Daniel

[1] http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/MoreUsers
[2] http://xapian.org/users
[3] http://www.sphinxsearch.com/buttons.html
[4] http://xapian.org/xapian-logo.png