Unclear license for icons

[Agathe]

Icons under “assets/resources” seems to be copied from somewhere without the actual copyright information associated to them. This seems particularly true for the “youtube32.png” and “warning.png” icons that sees to have a different style from the other icons.

Please clarify the copyright status of these icons somewhere, so we can distribute flatcam in Debian.

Thanks.

[Marius Stanciu]

Hi Agathe,

In Flatcam beta some of the icons are inherited from the old FlatCAM for which, since it was released under MIT license, I assume the usage was permitted.
As for the rest of the icons, some I made (I am not a artist I know ) and some are downloaded from some websites that requested that the app using it should have attributions.
Which I did here:

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[Agathe]

Hi, thanks for your answer!

I was trying to find the license use information of these icons, but I struggle to find something clear. For example, Flaticons website license information it seems that one must buy a “Premium license” to be able to use the icons.

The icons on Onlinewebfonts do not seem to have a proper license but “Free” without any further indications. The icons coming from Icon8 are coming with a very verbose license agreement that does not seem to be compatible with open-source software.

I do not have an easy solution. Maybe one would be to replace some of them with equivalents using a proper license like Creative Commons or something OSI approved. Another idea would be to spend an afternoon designing quick replacements in Inkscape and export them back to PNG to replace the other ones.

Interested in your opinion about this.

[Marius Stanciu]

Hi,
When you download those icons, in the dialog message it tells you what you have to do. Flaticons do have the premium liecnse but if you select the choice of free in the search box, then on download there is a popup asking you to post a link.
I don’t know how it is now for the Icons8 but at the time when I downloaded icons from them, the only requirement was to add somewhere a html line that gives attribution, which I did.