[Tango-artists] Using tango icons in commercial applications and getting new icons

[Simon Pascal Klein]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 15:36 +0200, Thomas Braun wrote:
> Dear Developers,
> 
> my employee, the SPECS GmbH www.specs.de, produces and sells surface 
> science components. Together with our hardware we ship in house 
> programmed software.
> For a new application which is currently developed, we need, as usual, 
> some new icons. The icons from the Tango project look very good and we 
> would like to use these icons.
> But some things I would like to get clarified:
> 
> 1.) Are we allowed to use your icons in commercial, non-free, software ? 
> (The license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ states 'yes' 
> if I understand it properly, but feel free to correct me)

Ja, so long as you attribute the project and it's artists. Any
derivatives must also licensed under the CC-BY-SA license 2.5 license.

> 2.) If we are allowed to use the icons we would give you credit for the 
> icons in the About Dialog of the program.

Attribution would be covered by this.

> 2.) If we would like to alter the icons, the altered icons have to be 
> under the same license and we would give credit to the original 
> developers (you). Correct?

Yes.

> 3.) Some icons we would like to have are missing, so the questions is if 
>   you would be interested (for money) to create some new icons (approx. 
> 10). The license of the custom made icons can be of course also CC-ASa 2.5.

There are lots of talented artists on this list. :)

> Thanks for you help and please CC me on replies
> Thomas Braun


Kind regards.

-Pascal
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