[development] Where to find free icons?

Gerhard Killesreiter gerhard at killesreiter.de
Mon Aug 14 08:31:51 UTC 2006


Bèr Kessels wrote:
> Op zondag 13 augustus 2006 08:53, schreef Darrel:
>> I'm working on a bunch of file specific stuff, and I've been trying to
>> do some little things to spruce up the file forms. One thing I've done
>> is add a filetype icon... I borrowed some from PHP File Navigator
>> (http://pfn.sourceforge.net). I'm not sure if their licensing allows me
>> to use them, and I want to avoid any possible license conflicts... Can
>> anyone recommend a place to find freeware icons for filetypes...
>> preferably as images... all I keep finding are .ico's....
>>
>> .darrel.
> 
> Nice place to start hunting: 
> http://www.kde-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=22x27 they have a datafield 
> called "licence".
> I used http://nuovext.pwsp.net/ for quicktags.

It is interesting to note that they switched to a CC license in August 
2005 and back to GPL in September.

> and FWIW: this discussion is really closed, see Dries' comment here:
>   http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2006-06/msg00033.html
> 
> «We're not lawyers, so let's try not to  
> make up our own rules, or mix licenses without knowing what we are  
> doing. » -- Dries

Ack.

Cheers,
	Gerhard


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