Alan Dayley wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Tuna wrote:
>> Anyone ever notice that the icons on AZCentral.com are from KDE? Take a
>> look at this:
>
>> http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2008/08/16/20080816schooloutsource08162008-CR.html
>
>> Those are totally KDE icons! Like the one for "Print" and "Send Email"
>> (or maybe it's attach or something, I'm not using the default theme
>> right now). And I'm pretty sure that star is for Konqueror's Bookmarks
>> thing.
>
> Good catch! Those definately are KDE icons. As a long-time KDE user,
> I recognized them right away, once you pointed them out.
>
> KDE icons are licensed under the LGPL. How that license applies to
> graphic visuals and how a site user can be informed adequately of
> that, I haven't thought about. A Google search
> "site:www.azcentral.com lgpl" comes up empty.
That is actually *very* common. Once you start looking for KDE icons on
websites, you will find them seemingly everywhere.
The KDE icons are LGPL, as you say. That means that anybody can use
them on their own site. Technically speaking, they have to have a copy
of the LGPL available... but what "available" means varies depending on
who you talk to.
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