That is very helpful, and I will follow this advice.
thanks
Mike

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:11:12 -0700 Soren Stoutner wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, April 22, 2025 1:31:04 PM Mountain Standard Time Michael
> > Cornelison wrote:
> > > The new release dkopp-8.2 now uses icons from the website
> > >    https://uxwing.com
> > > which I also customized.
> > > These icons are free to use without attribution, according to the
> > > website.
> >
> > The license on this website is not DFSG-free.
> >
> > https://uxwing.com/license/
> [...]
>
> I agree that these icons do not meet the DFSG.
> Even worse than that, their redistribution could be considered as
> illegal, as Soren has pointed out.
>
>
> Michael, please search for DFSG-free icons, if you cannot (or don't
> want to) create icons by yourself.
>
> Some collections of clipart/images which are DFGS-free, where you may
> perhaps find what you need:
>
>  * [Open Clip Art] which are under the [CC0] public domain dedication
>
> [Open Clip Art]: <https://openclipart.org/>
> [CC0]: <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt>
>
>  * [publicdomainvectors] which are also under the [CC0] public domain
>    dedication
>
> [publicdomainvectors]: <https://publicdomainvectors.org/>
>
>
> Once you found DFSG-free icons, please document where they come from
> and which is their license (or public domain dedication) in the
> 'copyright' file.
>
> I hope this helps.
> Bye!
>
>
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