
Firefox & Thunderbird icons
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
The guy that hosted the original Firefox & Thunderbird icons was caught by mozilla and forced to take them down. I however have put them back up, and was smarter about it, but I wont say how. *cough*fake info*cough* I managed to retain the 2.3 install instructions:
How to install 2.3:
This theme can now be installed by simply extracting the tar.bz2 file into
either $HOME/.kde/share/icons/hicolor or
$HOME/.kde/share/icons/crystalsvg or if you want to install it
systemwide (making it available even to gnome)
into /usr/share/icons/hicolor or appropriate directories in your kde
installation (/usr/kde/3.2/share/icons/hicolor on gentoo).
WhiteHotaru
14 years ago
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ItsTheSource
14 years ago
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mfriedrichs
15 years ago
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IPStifles
16 years ago
Copyleft advocates claim to be using the copyright system in order to make ideas more free than traditional copyright licenses have allowed for, but in practice these people often stoop to the same childish game of this-is-mine-not-yours that made the notion of traditional copyright so unappealing to copyleft advocates in the first place. The irony of this seems lost on most, but it's not surprising to me since the legal basis of copyleft is the logically and ethically flawed philosophy of copyright. You can't build a house of sharing on a foundation of oppression.
The recent open source licensing craze has turned the landscape of ideas into even more of a minefield than it was before, injecting more bureaucracy and legal ambiguity. If we truly value the spirit of sharing and the freedom of information and ideas, public domain is the ethical superior to copyright/copyleft and is the only rational means to achieve these ideals.
If the collective copyright trance that our minds have been captive to remains unchallenged, revocation of the rights to artificial monopoly (copyright) and the full restoration of the public domain are not likely to be legislated in the foreseeable future--and so it must be fought for instead. It will take many acts of civil disobedience large and small (even as seemingly trivial as re-posting these icons) to progressively awaken more people until the time is right for this change to occur. As it stands, millions of people already violate copyrights every day and are at least peripherally aware that ideas and information are fundamentally different from physical property, and that illegality is not the same thing as immorality.
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unholyness
16 years ago
Thanks, keep up the good work. What app did you make those in if you dont mind me asking?
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Amnesiac
16 years ago
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elektroschock
16 years ago
wonderful icon set
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RavenSlay3r2
16 years ago
It took me about 10 min. in gimp to rescale the firfox logo and clean up the edges for my own personal use. End result - I get an acceptable image for my desktop, w/out infringing on anyone rights.
To the best of my knowlege this is completely legal.
Here are the steps I took:
1) copy the included mozicon50.xcf
2) rescale to 128x128
3) create a new transparent layer behind the firefox icon.
4a) take a paint-brush, black, radius 60, hardness 90:
4b) put a circle who's outer ege just peaks out below the coarse bottom edge of the icon. (u may have to click the button a few times to get the right hardness).
5a) use the color picker to get the navy blue off the top of the icon
5b) use paint-brush, navy blue, radius 58(or 60ish), hardness 90
5c) same as before to even out the Top edge of the logo.
6) zoom in to about 400% and play with a small smuge tool around the foxes ear, and the end of his tail.
7) save as .xcf...
I'm not much of a gfx artist and this came out nice. I'm sure most ppl could do it better, quicker! Hope this helps.
Ravenslay3r
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caryp
16 years ago
The logos which are built into Firefox and Thunderird by default - the globe without the fox, and the original blue bird - are explicitly not trademarked. The files themselves are available under the mozilla.org tri-license; you can do anything you like with them under those terms.
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gerv
16 years ago
Gerv
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123go
16 years ago
I'm more disgusted with kde-look for continually hosting something which Mozilla has said are illegal.
Perhaps someone from Kde-Look would like to comment on their seeming inability to honour Mozilla's wishes...
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nuka
16 years ago
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rufuseddy
16 years ago
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Daemon-K
16 years ago
If you respect copyrights, I would suggest that you remove these.
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thomas12777
16 years ago
I mailed gerv (but got no reply yet) and watched the mozilla licensing page before - without seeing anything that would forbid creation and sharing of such icons.
Please: does anyone have a usefull link with further information on this (or to be more precise: can anyone tell me, if i'm still allowed to use different icons than that coming with the mozilla package?)
Thanks
(ps: if i'm not, mozilla should really include icons bigger than 32x32 - sorry but they're useless on my desktop (and no!: 48x48 is not ok, i prefer 128x128))
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aax24vb
16 years ago
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thomas12777
16 years ago
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aax24vb
16 years ago
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thomas12777
16 years ago
changing the wind'oh icons isn't that hard either, btw.
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ntesa
16 years ago
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BruceCadieux
16 years ago
Approval is not required to put buttons expressing your support for Mozilla or our software on your web site, including the Get Firefox buttons or similar buttons you may create yourself.
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gerv
16 years ago
Gerv
gerv@mozilla.org
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thomas12777
16 years ago
I think a lot of guys around here are similar confused, so if you exaclty know, why this conflicts with the terms of the mozilla license - please enlighten us.
Thanks
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tuxosuser
16 years ago
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123go
16 years ago
In his original post he seemed proud to admit he didn't read licenses, didn't care about them - and would post these icons no matter what.
Yet he's decrying SCO, who claim EXACTLY THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WITH LINUX USERS.
So on one hand he attacks SCO, and on the other hand gives them ammunition for their (misguided) cause.
Linux is not about misusing other's property - its about sharing willingly. Please respect the Mozilla Foundations need to protect their trademarks, because there are other companies out there keen to step on them like a bug...
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