From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possible change to startup.el Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:38:16 +0100 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87vf7kcvef.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111457209 32526 80.91.229.2 (22 Mar 2005 02:06:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 22 03:06:49 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDYn7-0005j3-QI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:06:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDZ4K-0005ap-Kx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:24:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDZ15-00048z-EQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:21:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDZ0x-00044A-2Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:21:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDZ0u-0003z7-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:21:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DDYa9-0001vM-HL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:53:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DDYXt-0004Jv-47 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:51:01 +0100 Original-Received: from pd95d064b.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.93.6.75]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:51:01 +0100 Original-Received: from david.hansen by pd95d064b.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:51:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd95d064b.dip.t-dialin.net Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tlQwBQO/Wu+61uF0VeQf+jcTH64= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34934 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34934 On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:14:12 +0100 David Kastrup wrote: > Andreas Schwab writes: > >> David Kastrup writes: >> >>> So where do we get copyright-free flag icons? >> >> KDE has a whole gallery. > > Are you sure that those are in the public domain? We are not talking > about "GPLed by some arbitrary party" here. We can't use those > without a copyright assignment. Since when can you copyright a flag? I bet these symbols actually are in public domain and a small icon of them is not a creative work. But probably these times you have to ask a lawyer before scribbling on a slip of paper. David