Thanks Heiko and Joseph.  I contacted the artist and one of the lead pidgin developers and they don't see a problem with usage but i'll still follow up with the GPL people.

Daniel


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Heiko Zinke <plug@zinkemail.de> wrote:
On Saturday 16 November 2013 22:04:40 Daniel Stasinski wrote:
> I'm curious about GPL2 with regard to images.
>
> I have found a set of gif icons that I would like to include in a
> non-commercial closed source application.  Since the images themselves are
> not being modified and they not directly embedded in the app, would this be
> an acceptable use under GPL2 if I did not release the source for my app?
> I've read all the faqs and it's just not that clear to me.
just ask here:
http://gpl-violations.org/mailinglists.html

Chances are brighter to get a well-founded answer.

MfG
heiko
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