Hello, Yamil.

Sure, I would be happy to do that.  What would be an example(s) of an 
authoritative confirmation that meets our needs?

Thanks.

Alexey Lazar
PALS
Information System Developer and Integrator
507-389-2907
http://www.mnpals.org/

On May 4, 2012, at 14:40 , Yamil Suarez wrote:

> Alexey,
> 
> I like your suggested icon a little more attractive than the one that Dan put 
> in his initial fix, but I would like to see if we can get a more 
> authoritative confirmation that this icon belongs to the Oxygen team than the 
> meta data in the icon finder site. On the other hand I can live with the icon 
> that Dan put up for now. Let me know if you are able to get more info on that 
> icon and we could ask some one like Robert Soulliere from DIG to OK then make 
> the change.
> 
> Thanks,
> Yamil
> 
> 
> 
> On May 2, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Peters, Michael wrote:
> 
>> For what it's worth, we used some Oxygen icons for the staff client portal 
>> page.
>> 
>> http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=blob_plain;f=Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/server/skin/media/images/portal/LICENSE;h=7d6786bef98f278c68c35490759a72e8b858cecc;hb=master
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> Michael Peters
>> Indiana State Library MIS | Inspire.IN.gov Helpdesk | Evergreen Indiana 
>> Helpdesk
>> office - 317.234.2128
>> email - [email protected]
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
>> Of Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 3:30 PM
>> To: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software
>> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] PDF icon: licensing concern & fix
>> 
>> Hi, Dan.
>> 
>> Yes, good idea with the quick fix.
>> 
>> On a site called Icon Finder, there is a set of PDF icons which meet the 
>> Adobe licensing requirement (as far as I understand) and are of professional 
>> quality: http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/8890/128/pdf_reader_icon.  We 
>> could basically use those PNGs as-is.  I would vote in favor of that icon 
>> over the GNOME one.  The icon is part of the Oxygen icon theme, 
>> dual-license: http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?page_id=4.
>> 
>> Alexey Lazar
>> PALS
>> Information System Developer and Integrator
>> 507-389-2907
>> http://www.mnpals.org/
>> 
>> On Apr 30, 2012, at 15:21 , Dan Scott wrote:
>> 
>>> 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(r) Acrobat(r) product.
>>> """
>>> 
>>> Emphasis on "created using an Adobe(r) Acrobat(r) 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
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