I'm sorry, the patch is in Nicolas' github repo: http://github.com/ngirard/org-icons/blob/b8be3d85b87c4fe6ce31cdc931fd1b77bb170a5c/lisp/org-icons.patch
"David O'Toole" <dto1138@gmail.com> writes:(David, I think you forgot the patch...)
> Carsten: right now this code requires a patch to org.el, but I'm not sure how
> much effect it has on other code---can you peek at the patch and see if this
> icons code could be made to run on a stock org.el by integrating the
> patch?
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Bastien