> Sean Hogston wrote:
>
> I'm sure there is probably some copyright law prohibiting this but can
> some one tell me how to create icons for dia.
> I have these cool icons from another program that I can save as jpeg
> or png or gif and Im not sure how to get them into dia.
> Thanks for any help, and keep up the good work!
>
I hate to be the Intellectual Property attorney that rains on someone,
but as an Officer of the Court I feel obligated to chime in on this
one. Copyright law _does_ prohibit the copying of icons from a
copyrighted work. If you can't secure permission from the copyright
owner to use the icons, then I would argue against inclusion of the
icons into Dia. I'm on the Debian-legal list and this very subject came
up recently. An otherwise free program was moved to non-free simply
because some of the graphics were owned by another entity and could not
be included in the GPL license that governed the remainder of the
program. KDE already fits into the non-free category (because of the Qt
license). I would hate for Dia to end up the same way, particularly
because Gnome is supposed to be free and Dia is supposed to (eventually)
be one of the programs included with Gnome.
Just my pro bono for the day...
Ronald L. Chichester
Attorney at Law
Registered Patent Attorney
Frohwitter Law Firm
Three Riverway, Suite 500
Houston, Texas 77056
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