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! > > > -- > http://www.inventati.org/frx/ > There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! > ..................................................... Francesco Poli . > GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE > -- Mike kornelix.net open source Linux apps substack <https://michaelcornelison.substack.com/> essays
