2007/7/1, Eric <<a href="mailto:cephelo@gmail.com">cephelo@gmail.com</a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Some of them new gnome-icon-theme icons are great, for instance, the star icon. However, I see that the gnome-icon-theme appears to strictly be under the GPL. Does the GPL imply that if I use the icon on my blog that my closed-source (it's not worth open sourcing) back end code needs to be GPL'd since the closed-source code renders the HTML which in turn references the icons? From prior discussions, closed-source and commercial websites can use the tango icons with appropriate link and "by line". I could find no such reference in the gnome-icon-theme/COPYING file. There have been a few discussions on this list regarding licensing, too, on websites and on commercial apps. From what I recall, the questions were deferred to a lawyer, but I haven't heard anything on the subject since around 2006. One outstanding question I recall is using the Tango CCBYSA icons in a closed-source Windows application (since Windows doesn't have a theming framework for icons). In that case, icons *must* be bundled with an application... would an appropriate link in the program directory and "About" menu be sufficient? </blockquote></div>I don't know, might be, though. Anyway, you shouldn't worry about that if you're not going to release anything, as licences do their thing when distributing.