Re: Gnome Icon Pixmap Guidelines -- Request for Amendments

[Daniel Weber <DWEBER1 austin rr com>]

Might there also be copyright issues with icons created from other sources?  By
forcing all icons to be hand-drawn, it would eliminate the possibility of
copyright infringment.

Ben FrantzDale wrote:

> I think the idea is to creat a "look"  If you make a rendered icon that
> looks like it was hand drawn, then no problem, but if some icons are shiny
> raytracings, and some are Tigert-esq drawings, then things look missmatched.
>
> --Ben
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Manuel A. McLure <mmt@unify.com>
> To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 12:12 PM
> Subject: RE: Gnome Icon Pixmap Guidelines -- Request for Amendments
>
> > Why the restriction against using rendering or raytracing? As long as they
> > comply to all the other guidelines, why does it matter what method was
> used
> > to create them?
> >
> > --
> > Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW <mmt@unify.com>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mawarkus@t-online.de [mailto:mawarkus@t-online.de]
> > Subject: Gnome Icon Pixmap Guidelines -- Request for Amendments
> >
> > [ SNIP ]
> >
> > Gnome Icon Pixmap Guidelines
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > FIRST VERY ROUGH DRAFT -- mawa, September 29th, 1999
> >
> >
> > Gnome icons
> >
> > [ SNIP ]
> >
> > - are created by hand, no rendering or raytracing is allowed
> >
>