Re: [ros-dev] Audit for non-code things?

[art yerkes]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:08:25 +0300
"Aleksey Bragin" <aleksey(a)studiocerebral.com> wrote:

>   Audit doesn't touch only source code -- it does
> touch artwork also.
>  
>  Thanks for your information - I think mf is familiar with artwork, and could 
>  audit it, and fix such errors. And I know he already began the process - 
>  results were in the 'audited' repository, and should have been transferred 
>  to svn://svn.reactos.org/reactos/trunk/reactos .
>  
>  
>  WBR,
>  Aleksey Bragin.
>  
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: "theUser BL" <theuserbl(a)hotmail.com>
>  To: <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
>  Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:24 PM
>  Subject: [ros-dev] Audit for non-code things?
>  
>  
>  >I have tried out the SVN-Snapshot of ROS 3.0 by EmuandCo:
>  > http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1741#14146
>  >
>  > At first, I want to say, that the ReactOS-Explorer looks a lot of nicer. 
>  > And some bugs are fixed. Nice work.
>  >
>  > Then I have looked at the program-icons.
>  > sol.exe and winefile.exe seems to use icons from old Windows-Versions 
>  > (Windows 3.x/95/98/NT4).
>  > And with taskmgr.exe I am not sure, if the icon is from Windows or at own 
>  > designed.
>  > All three programs comming from WINE and not from ReactOS. But is legal to 
>  > using it?
>  >
>  > More woders me the new ReactOS Notepad.
>  > If you click on Help -> About, then there opens a window where stands:
>  >  Icon borrowed from Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
>  >
>  > But Notepad2 have borrowed it from Microsofts WindowsXP Notepad.
>  > It is funny to see, how the original creater of the icon, isn't named - 
>  > but instead
>  > of it, an other one is named.
>  > But the program notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/) is 
>  > OpenSource (GPL) and thats icon you could be used.
>  >
>  > After that, I looked with Microsofts fontview.exe (the program is part of 
>  > every MS-Windows) in the text inside the fonts of ROS.
>  > There are copyrighted fonts by Adobe, Bitstream, IBM, Sun and Transgaming.
>  > And there are some Bitstream fonts in which stands:
>  > Copyright 1990 as an unpublished work by Bitstream Inc. All rights 
>  > reserved. Confidential.
>  >
>  > Confidential? Unpublished? From where comes then the fonts?
>  > The fonts in which this stand are
>  > c0419bt_.ttf, c0582bt_.ttf, c0583bt_.ttf, c0611bt_.ttf, c0632bt_.ttf, 
>  > c0633bt_.ttf,
>  > c0648bt_.ttf and c0649bt_.ttf.
>  > Ok, the Copyright is from 1990 (for 16 years!), but is it legal to use 
>  > this fonts?
>  >
>  > Instead you could use the following fonts:
>  > http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/
>  > http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/
>  >
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentiu…
>  >
>  > Greatings
>  > theuserbl 
The font copyrights are right there in media/fonts/doc.  Yes all the
fonts are legally distributed.
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