Daniel Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Jensen) writes: > >> Perhaps use icons from Mark James at famfamfam.com [2], >> they are free. > > Wow, that's quite a collection of beautiful icons. Impressive! > They are CC-BY 2.5, so GPL-incompatible, but perhaps we could > get the author to release a copy under the GPL. I'll mail him.
FYI, here is the message I sent: Hi Mark, I am a developer of Bongo[1], a free media player for Emacs. Someone recently posted a patch implementing support for displaying icons in Bongo, and your icon set was brought up on the mailing list as a potential starting point for a Bongo icon set. I was very impressed with your icons --- the quality is very good and the set is quite large --- and was glad to see that they are available under a free license. There is one problem, however. Richard Stallman has requested that Bongo be made a part of GNU Emacs after the imminent release of GNU Emacs 22. The problem is that the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license is incompatible with the GPL. As a consequence, these icons will not be accepted into the GNU Emacs distribution. As the incompatibility between CC-BY and the GPL often surprises people (it does not make much sense to me), I am hoping you might be willing to release a copy of your icon set under the GNU GPL version 2, or any later version as published by the Free Software Foundation (this part is important). Thank you for making such a high-quality icon set available for free. Best regards, -- Daniel Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1] http://bongo.nongnu.org/ _______________________________________________ bongo-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bongo-devel
