Hey folks: I noticed the Adobe PDF image on the bottom of the docs pages and thought "Hmm..."; taking a quick look at http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html#pdficon we're almost in compliance, with a big "but":
""" The Adobe PDF file icon is provided solely as an indicator of an active link to a Portable Document Format file with a .pdf filename extension created using an Adobe® Acrobat® product. """ Emphasis on "created using an Adobe® Acrobat® product"; as ours is not, we shouldn't be using that icon. (Actually, the icon isn't quite the same; ours has "Adobe" on it, which is probably worse because then we're contravening "3. You may not alter the Adobe PDF file icon in any manner"). So, a quick peek at GNOME's icons shows the "Dropline Etiquette" set at http://art.gnome.org/download/themes/icon/1049/ICON-DroplineEtiquette.tar.bz2 has an appropriately licensed (CC-BY-SA) icon called /dlg-etiquette/scalable/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-pdf.svg that might meet our needs, if we don't want to create something ourselves. I've pushed a branch called "new_pdf_icon" to the DIG repository that contains a replacement GIF derived from the GNOME icon; to comply with the BY-SA license, I have included a comment in the GIF that clearly states the provenance of the icon. In the spirit of "beg for forgiveness", I have gone ahead and pushed this change to the master, rel_2_1, and rel_2_0 branches of the repo too. This can obviously be changed later, but I thought it was important to address this (relatively minor) licensing violation right away. Dan _______________________________________________ OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list [email protected] http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation
