Only WineMine is taken from Wine. Our Solitaire is a project Steven found and gained the authors permission to include it. TaskManager was written by Brian IIRC, for ReactOS.
The notepad icon was taken from notepad2 which is GPL. It is assumed that anything from other GPL projects is legal and interchanagble. If there is a copyright issue, I can change it.
-----Original Message----- From: theUser BL [mailto:theuserbl@hotmail.com] Sent: 02 March 2006 12:24 To: ros-dev@reactos.org 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 And there are some Bitstream fonts in which stands: Copyright 1990 as an unpublished work by Bitstream Inc. All rights reserved.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 Unpublished?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=Gentium... ux&_sc=1
Greatings theuserbl
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Yes, I wrote the task manager. The icon was designed by a friend of mine and does not come from Microsoft in any way.
-Brian
-----Original Message----- From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Murphy, Ged (Bolton) Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:28 AM To: 'ReactOS Development List' Subject: RE: [ros-dev] Audit for non-code things?
Only WineMine is taken from Wine. Our Solitaire is a project Steven found and gained the authors permission to include it. TaskManager was written by Brian IIRC, for ReactOS.
The notepad icon was taken from notepad2 which is GPL. It is assumed that anything from other GPL projects is legal and interchanagble. If there is a copyright issue, I can change it.
-----Original Message----- From: theUser BL [mailto:theuserbl@hotmail.com] Sent: 02 March 2006 12:24 To: ros-dev@reactos.org 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=Gentium... ux&_sc=1
Greatings theuserbl
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Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote:
The notepad icon was taken from notepad2 which is GPL. It is assumed that anything from other GPL projects is legal and interchanagble. If there is a copyright issue, I can change it.
Frik85 replaced the icon today in r21228 and I think he was right to do so. I attached a screenshot of the notepad2 and notepad icons next to each other ....
Maarten Bosma
Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote: The notepad icon was taken from notepad2 which is GPL. It is assumed that anything from other GPL projects is legal and interchanagble. If there is a copyright issue, I can change it.
Maarten Bosma wrote: Frik85 replaced the icon today in r21228 and I think he was right to do so. I attached a screenshot of the notepad2 and notepad icons next to each other ....
The previous icon file was identic with the WinXP notepad icon (even the 16 color version was the same!). I replaced it with an icon from the tango icon-set (http://tango-project.org), [I converted the png files to one ICO file].
The solitaire icon is also identic with the Win95/98/ME Solitaire (sol.exe) icon. I have compaired both icons (see screenshot "sol.png" [2kb]). I commited another tango icon (see svn log).
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