Hi Andreas, First, I think you copied the wrong URL, it should have been http://bugs.debian.org/397835 instead of http://bugs.debian.org/397853 Thankfully, the bug id was in the CC list.
Anyways, I was first surprised by what you said, but I still took the time to check. I think this bug report is invalid because I can now confirm to you that none of the images are taken from the official client. We did have in an old version (2 or 3 years old) some pixmaps from msn, but then we completely removed them in order to avoid any legal infrigement. I wasn't able to find the *.xpm files mentioned in the bug report, there are some xbm files though, and they were done by someone from the team. the xbm format is a linux image format and cannot have been copied from the windows msn client. This also is true for all the png images as well as sounds. The images were created using InkScape by our graphics artist. The sounds were played on a guitar and recorded by a friend of Alvaro, the project owner. Here is a screenshot showing you the soccer and rubber duck display pictures from amsn and from the official windows live messenger client : http://www.amsn-project.net/~kakaroto/display_pics.jpg The images on the left are from the microsoft product while the images on the right are from aMSN. As you can see they look alike and can be confusing but they are not the same images at all. Actually, I noticed a few cases where our graphic artist designed an image and that we later found out that it ressembles the official client's image, those are pure coincidences. I hope this answers your questions. If you have any other question, don't hesitate to ask. Thank you, KaKaRoTo On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:05:36PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > Hi, > > it seems that we need your help - there is a bug report questioning > where these files come from, and it couldn't be clarified up to now. > The full bug report is available at http://bugs.debian.org/397853 > > Any feedback from your side is welcome. > > > For Debian, being sure about legal issues is a major topic, and if we > cannot settle this quite soon, we will unfortunatly be forced to remove > this package from the next stable version, Etch, something I wouldn't > like to see happen. > > > Cheers, > Andi > > * Goneri Le Bouder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061110 02:55]: > > The same logo (MSN Messenger) is used on this picture: > > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/messenger/images/home_page_winxp.jpg > > > > Some pixmaps in /usr/share/amsn/skins/default are concerned too. > > > > displaypic: > > ball.png (from WinXP?) > > rubberduck.png (from WinXP?) > > pixmaps: > > alarm.png > > amsnnicon.png > > away.png > > back.png > > baway.png > > bbusy.png > > blocked.png > > boffline.png > > bonline.png > > busy.png > > butinvite.png > > butinvite_hover.png > > ... > > sounds: > > I don't have a Windows to chekc, but these sounds seem to be copied > > from Messenger installation > > winicons: > > away.ico > > brb.ico > > busy.ico > > hidden.ico > > inactive.ico > > lunch.ico > > msn.ico > > offline.ico > > online.ico > > phone.ico > > > -- > http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
