As I understand it, yes you're right David.
I don't know much about licenses and especially how nicely they play
together, but the "Silk" icon set from famfamfam.com [1] is free and
released under the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution [2] license.
Derek.
[1] http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/
[2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
On 8/21/07, David Ornstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm afraid it doesn't work that way. :-(
>
> The reason that Microsoft holds the copyright to FlexWiki is because I
> wrote a pile of it (so that work is covered under my employment agreement
> with Microsoft that says when I write something like this on company time
> and company equipment it's company property) and the rest has been written
> by people who have signed an assignment agreement saying that Microsoft
> becomes the owner of their contribution (and they also retain the right to
> do whatever they want with it).
>
> So that covers actual contributions to FlexWiki from inside Microsoft and
> outside.
>
> What it doesn't do is mean that anything Microsoft owns the copyright for
> can simply be dropped into FlexWiki.
>
> I can't quite follow the thread below, but I'm guessing that the upload
> feature had some images for certain types of documents and those are the
> issue? Is that right?
>
> /David
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flexwiki-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Andera
> > Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 1:04 PM
> > To: 'FlexWiki Users Mailing List'
> > Subject: Re: [Flexwiki-users] Upload File & Attachment to Topic
> >
> > Hmm. Good question. FlexWiki is itself copyright Microsoft, so I don't
> > see
> > any issue with distributing images that are copyright Microsoft. I'm no
> > lawyer, though. Obviously, for other stuff we'd have to handle it on a
> > case-by-case basis, and it would likely be easier to just punt.
> >
> > David, as our resident MSFT employee, is going to have to give the
> > authoritative answer here.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flexwiki-
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Davidson
> > > Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 4:01 PM
> > > To: FlexWiki Users Mailing List
> > > Subject: Re: [Flexwiki-users] Upload File & Attachment to Topic
> > >
> > > A couple of months ago now, I noted that the images were not ones
> > that
> > > I had myself created and that I did not have the copyright to
> > > distribute. I would of course like to have a Word icon for .doc files
> > > and and Excel icon for .xls files, etc.
> > >
> > > I had asked how this should be handled, hoping to get an answer from
> > > Craig, or David.
> > >
> > > At this moment the code only references a single generic text icon. I
> > > guess I would like direction on how to manage this.
> > >
> > > John Davidson
> > >
> > > On 8/20/07, Nathan Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Hi John, I think that you may have forgotten to add and commit the
> > > > images necessary for this. The links are pointing to
> > > images/upload/xxx
> > > > but there is no images/upload folder in SVN.
> > > >
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