Re: Stock icons

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 15:57 +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:22:20PM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 12:09 +0800, Benjamin Lau Wei Yii wrote:
> > > I am writing an application in Qt due to a very very
> > > urgent and ridiculous dealine and cant afford to spend
> > > time checking documentation. However, I need icons for
> > > my menus and such, and have found the gtkmm stock
> > > icons to be very suited to thisd purpose. I understand
> > > that this may be very very rude to ask, but may I use
> > > the stock icon images found in the gtkmm docs as icons
> > > for my application?
> > > 
> > > P/s It's written in Qt 3, and my application is under
> > > GPL, it's for a school project and I am in urgent need
>     ^^^
> If your application is under GPL, that the LGPL of Gtk+ (and it really
> has nothing to do with Gtkmm) grants you the right.

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think the LGPL allows you to just
copy/paste stuff out of GTK+.

You need permission to use someone else's graphics.

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Murray Cumming
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