[Tango-artists] license?

Rodney Dawes dobey.pwns at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 09:17:07 PST 2007


I would s/are from/provided by/

But yes. That is attribution. A link to the site would be nice if
possible too.

-- dobey

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 17:51 -0500, Gene Norris wrote:
> So, if I use some tango icons in my program, am I required to do more 
> than state (in my about box): "Some icons are from the Tango Desktop 
> Project."
> 
> Gene
> 
> Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > There is no "Tango Icon Library". There is the tango-icon-theme.
> > Attribution for using the tango-icon-theme icons which are licensed
> > under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license, is stated on the
> > front page of the site:
> > 
> > Use of icons from the tango-icon-theme module must be attributed to the
> > Tango Desktop Project.
> > 
> > That is all. The "copyright holder" is whoever authored the specific
> > icon in question. There is no single owner that all copyright must be
> > attributed to, for the theme collection.
> > 
> > There are also plenty more icons under the GPL, which follow the Tango
> > Style Guidelines if you wold prefer to use them. If you're application
> > is a GTK+ or Qt application, it is preferable to use the icon theme
> > implementation in the toolkit to request an appropriate icon.
> > 
> > -- dobey
> > 
> > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 14:55 -0500, Gene Norris wrote:
> >> I am confused by the license.
> >>
> >> Who exactly is the copyright holder for the Tango Icon Library?
> >>
> >> If I use some tango icons in my program, am I required to do more than
> >> state (in my about box): "Some icons are from the Tango Desktop Project."
> >>
> >> If more is required, could they be explained in terms that are easily
> >> understood and pertain to this project.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Gene Norris
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 



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