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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Applets? [ was: Re: kde mp3 player]
From:       Torsten Rahn <rahn () astrophysik ! uni-kiel ! de>
Date:       1999-05-14 18:55:14
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Martin Konold wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 14 May 1999, Pietro Iglio wrote:
> 
> > Question: is there any copyright issue if we copy toolbar icons from other
> > applications? I have seen the same icons (eg. the floppy disk for "Save")
> > in many toolbars in many different applications.
> > Did they all pay license fees? Is it possible to copyright a small icon?
> > (like the ones appearing in toolbars)
> 
> Please be very careful and do not copy ANY non open source artwork into
> kde applications.
> 
> E.g.: The big number of win32 icons are freely availabe from M$ but ONLY
> for use on the Windows platform.

Besides that itīs also not a matter of getting *icons* but getting 
icons that are *style-compliant*.
The new KDE-HiColor-icons will look different from GNOME icons which
look 
different from Windowmaker-icons which look very different from
Winblows-
icons which look .....
So if you want KDE-toolbar-icons they have to be created
style-compliant!
(Well, who said I would not create toolbar-icons ... ? :-)
Otherwise it will look very unprofessional ...

Torsten

> Regards,
> -- martin
> 
> // Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  //
> // Email: konold@kde.org                                         //
> Anybody who's comfortable using KDE should use it. Anyone who wants to
> tell other people what they should be using can go to work for Microsoft.
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