At 12:29 AM +0200 6/15/05, Andy Pieters wrote: ... >The posibilities are legio but I want to be very carefull and fully respect >legislation. I am afraid I'm not that good an artist to design the icons >myself... No, you /should/ make your own icons. Make them really ugly, even make them bitmapped words, make them look like a progammer made them. (Look at my website for programmer-drawn icons: bold, obvious (mostly), and crude.) If your customer wants better icons he can pay a /graphics artist/ to make them. You could also make a deal with the copyright holder for different licensing arrangements for the icons. You would have to offer something in return (money, usually :). If there are many copyright holders this is hard. Personally, I find the GPL to be pretty clear, and viral, in that any GPL'd stuff in a product makes the product GPL'd. That doesn't mean one can't sell such products (Redhat does), all it means is that one must also give away the source code and the rights to use the source code for any purpose the GPL permits (thus, others can also sell it or give it away). Generally, one should not have any GPL'd code in a commercial product, and there aren't any cute disclaimers or licensing or distribution tricks that will let one evade the GPL, and it is at best a waste of money to pay a lawyer for such tricks. Note that the LGPL is different, in that it is not viral; all you need to distribute under the LGPL is the LGPL'd code you used. The GPL authors don't like the LGPL for that reason. A few things are available under both licenses. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
