Thanks for explaining the history! That's funny that some people don't change the icon. And I now understand why a generic question mark is the way to go.
On Mon, May 16, 2016, 1:29 AM Stian Soiland-Reyes <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be used as a default icon in the Workbench integration of the > archetype-generated plugin. I think we did the Potato Man because then > people would be incline to change it - however several prototype > plugins happily use the potato man icon and thus redistribute it in > their source code. > > > I disabled that part of the archetype, but still the files remain in the > source. > > E.g. as in > http://dev.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/display/developer/6.+Service+icons > > > > I think Alan is right in that the Potato Man is copyrighted, so I'll > replace the PNG with a place holder made in Gimp. Perhaps one tricky > thing here is to ensure that the PNG itself won't be copyhrightable, > as otherwise anyone using the Archetype would be forced to attribute > Apache Taverna and the Apache License for that 16x16 PNG. :) > > I have replaced it with a simple question mark, and added the > https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ license to the > corresponding .xcf. > > > > > On 16 May 2016 at 00:10, Gale Naylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is this resource used? I did a search of Engine in Eclipse, but did not > > find any other instances of exampleIcon. > > > > How is this used? If you can give me some direction, and any > requirements, > > I might be able to create an icon. > > > > > > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 11:20 AM Alan Williams <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > >> On 15-May-16 19:14, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > >> [snip] > >> > >> > But doing so, I just realized the archetype includes a dummy activity > PNG > >> > > >> > > >> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-engine/blob/master/taverna-activity-archetype/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/__rootArtifactId__-activity-ui/src/main/resources/exampleIcon.png > >> > > >> > it's the "Potato man" - do anyone remember the origin of this? Did we > >> > make it, or do we need to replace it? > >> > >> I think it needs to be replaced as if you expand it, it is obviously Mr > >> Potato Head which is copyrighted. We could just use a ? instead. > >> > >> Alan > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > Stian Soiland-Reyes > Apache Taverna (incubating), Apache Commons RDF (incubating) > http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718 >
