[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] PDF icon: licensing concern & fix

[Yamil Suarez]

Alexey,

I like your suggested icon a little more attractive than the one that  
Dan put in his initial fix, but I would like to see if we can get a  
more authoritative confirmation that this icon belongs to the Oxygen  
team than the meta data in the icon finder site. On the other hand I  
can live with the icon that Dan put up for now. Let me know if you are  
able to get more info on that icon and we could ask some one like  
Robert Soulliere from DIG to OK then make the change.

Thanks,
Yamil



On May 2, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Peters, Michael wrote:

> For what it's worth, we used some Oxygen icons for the staff client  
> portal page.
>
> http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=blob_plain;f=Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/server/skin/media/images/portal/LICENSE;h=7d6786bef98f278c68c35490759a72e8b858cecc;hb=master
>
> Sincerely,
> Michael Peters
> Indiana State Library MIS | Inspire.IN.gov Helpdesk | Evergreen  
> Indiana Helpdesk
> office - 317.234.2128
> email - mrpeters at library.in.gov
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 3:30 PM
> To: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] PDF icon: licensing concern &  
> fix
>
> Hi, Dan.
>
> Yes, good idea with the quick fix.
>
> On a site called Icon Finder, there is a set of PDF icons which meet  
> the Adobe licensing requirement (as far as I understand) and are of  
> professional quality: http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/8890/128/pdf_reader_icon 
> .  We could basically use those PNGs as-is.  I would vote in favor  
> of that icon over the GNOME one.  The icon is part of the Oxygen  
> icon theme, dual-license: http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?page_id=4.
>
> Alexey Lazar
> PALS
> Information System Developer and Integrator
> 507-389-2907
> http://www.mnpals.org/
>
> On Apr 30, 2012, at 15:21 , Dan Scott wrote:
>
>> Hey folks:
>>
>> I noticed the Adobe PDF image on the bottom of the docs pages and  
>> thought
>> "Hmm..."; taking a quick look at
>> http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html#pdficon we're almost in
>> compliance, with a big "but":
>>
>> """
>> The Adobe PDF file icon is provided solely as an indicator of an  
>> active
>> link to a Portable Document Format file with a .pdf filename  
>> extension
>> created using an Adobe(r) Acrobat(r) product.
>> """
>>
>> Emphasis on "created using an Adobe(r) Acrobat(r) product"; as ours  
>> is not,
>> we shouldn't be using that icon. (Actually, the icon isn't quite the
>> same; ours has "Adobe" on it, which is probably worse because then  
>> we're
>> contravening "3. You may not alter the Adobe PDF file icon in any
>> manner").
>>
>> So, a quick peek at GNOME's icons shows the "Dropline Etiquette"  
>> set at
>> http://art.gnome.org/download/themes/icon/1049/ICON-DroplineEtiquette.tar.bz2
>> has an appropriately licensed (CC-BY-SA) icon called
>> /dlg-etiquette/scalable/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-pdf.svg that
>> might meet our needs, if we don't want to create something ourselves.
>> I've pushed a branch called "new_pdf_icon" to the DIG repository that
>> contains a replacement GIF derived from the GNOME icon; to comply  
>> with
>> the BY-SA license, I have included a comment in the GIF that clearly
>> states the provenance of the icon.
>>
>> In the spirit of "beg for forgiveness", I have gone ahead and pushed
>> this change to the master, rel_2_1, and rel_2_0 branches of the repo
>> too. This can obviously be changed later, but I thought it was  
>> important
>> to address this (relatively minor) licensing violation right away.
>>
>> Dan
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