On Sunday, December 30, 2001, at 04:20 AM, Mr. Weasel Willits wrote:
I am curious, what are the legal concerns behind using the icons in
System Prefs? Are they open for other developers to use, or has apple
copyrighted them and reserved them for that only. Does that also
apply to the icons in other Apple made OSX apps?
Right now I'm using icons taken out of mail.app, terminal.app, and the
system prefs panes.
I just want to know if there's a possibility of getting sued.
Unless Apple is into mass-suing, I think you're ok. ALOT of apps use
system resources.
Does apple have a collection of public domain icons for OSX?
Not that i know of. I sometimes look for icons (iconfactory.com or
xicons.com) and use those as they are in the public domain.
I'd guess that none of the Iconfactory's icons are in the public
domain. Many of them are offered for your use for free on noncommercial
web sites. but they still retain copyright. "Public domain" means that
they have waived their copyright, and nothing on their web site suggests
that they have done that.
Charles Yeomans
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