GNU Avatars

This page is for GNU avatars. You can use these avatars on forums, in IM programs, etc. Using these avatars is a good way to promote GNU and free software in general and to show others that you are pro-freedom.

Avatar submissions are welcome and encouraged. Our policy for avatars is that all of these are true:

It is small like a normal avatar.
It has something to do with GNU or free software in general.
It has no copyright problems.
It is not libelous.
It won't offend most ordinary hackers more than is reasonable in humor.

We would like the avatars to say "www.gnu.org" or "gnu.org" so that more people will find out about GNU and free software in general.

An avatar based on A Bold GNU Head:

The copyright holder of this avatar is Joakim Olsson <[email protected]>. It is available under the Free Art License. It is based on A Bold GNU Head which is also under the Free Art License by Aurelio A. Heckert <[email protected]>.

An avatar based on Levitating, Meditating, Flute-playing Gnu by the Nevrax Design Team:

The copyright holder of this avatar is Diego Gómez. It is available under these licenses:

the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version, or
the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts and with no Back-Cover Texts.

It is based on Levitating, Meditating, Flute-playing Gnu by the Nevrax Design Team which is also available under those licenses.

An avatar based on Georg Bahlon's 3D GNU head:

The copyright holder of this avatar is Joakim Olsson <[email protected]>. It is available under the GNU GPL. It is based on Georg Bahlon's 3D GNU head which is also under the GNU GPL.

An avatar based on Another Small Ascii Gnu:

The avatar above is: Copyright (C) 2007, Joakim Olsson
Permission is given to copy or distribute (or both) the above avatar, with or without modifications. It is based on Another Small Ascii Gnu which is: Copyright (C) 2004, Martin Dickopp
Permission is given to copy or distribute (or both) that ASCII image, with or without modifications.

An avatar based on 3D Baby GNU:

This avatar is:
Copyright © 2007, Joakim Olsson
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of:

the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

It is based on 3D Baby GNU by Nicolas Rougier. That image is under the same licenses.

An avatar based on an amusing alternative to the GNU Head, of Stuart Langridge, free software developer and host of the GNU/Linux radio show, Lugradio:

This avatar, made by Joakim Olsson <[email protected]>, is based on an amusing alternative to the GNU Head., of Stuart Langridge, free software developer and host of the GNU/Linux radio show, Lugradio by Chris Hayes, aka cbhworld.

An avatar based on GNU Alternative:

This avatar is based on GNU Alternative.

An avatar based on The Dynamic Duo: The Gnu and the Penguin in flight:

The avatar above is:
Copyright (C) 2007, Joakim Olsson
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms either:

the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version, or
the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts and with no Back-Cover Texts.

It is based on The Dynamic Duo: The Gnu and the Penguin in flight which is under the same licenses released by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.