Re: GNUstep icons

[Enrico Sersale]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Adam Fedor wrote:

> Enrico Sersale wrote:
> > I'm about to release GWorkspace 0.4. For this reason, speaking on the
> > #GNUstep channel with other users and developers about the features and
> > the look and feel of a GNUstep desktop, I noticed that many people (I too)
> > don't like some of the GNUstep icons actually used for the directories
> > (common_Folder.tiff, common_HomeDirectory.tiff, etc...).
> >
> > For this reason, we usually change, for example, common_Folder.tiff with
> > the folder icon from an old free collection of next-like icons
> > (http://www.linux.gr/logos/iconstore/).
> >
> > Here is a screenshot of the resulting look:
> > http://gnustep-apps.org/fabien/GWorkSpace/screenshots/gworkspaceIconsStep.jpg
> >
> > We hope to not start a flameware for this; we want only to propose to
> > change the folder icons with those that, pratically, people is using.
> >
>
> What license are they under? Perhaps it would be best to distribute them
> as a separate package that could be installed on top of GNUstep.

I'm agreed with this installation solution.

Regarding the license, the problem is that this icons tarball, even if it
is known since a long time, has no Copyright in it.
Unfortunately, we've noticed this only today.
Now we will contact the Icon store's webmaster or the author to know
something...