On 16/04/2010, at 7:45 AM, Kirill wrote:

> Is it legal to use some Mac OS X icons in 3rd party application?
> For example Finder displays great "clock" icon for "Recent files" (see Finder 
> Sidebar->Search For->Today).
> My application has Finder/ITunes-like interface and it have Recent Folders 
> item in Sidebar too. So, is it legal to load and display this apple clock 
> icon in my application? 


Unless you are using one of the built-in named icons (e.g. [NSImage 
imageNamed:@"NSColorPanel"]) then I believe you should avoid using Apple images 
unless you've obtained permission.

You should just create your own version of the clock icon, it's not like it's 
particularly complex.

--
Rob Keniger



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