Re: new toolbar icons are problematic

[Dave Love]

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:

> I batch converted them with netpbm.

That's probably complicated.  For what it's worth, ImageMagick's
`convert' seemed to be the convenient way to do batch conversions.  (I
guess it can do the same thing as Gimp if you find the right options,
but I don't know.)

> They are from GTK, don't know who did them.  According to RMS they are
> OK,
> he said previously:
>    "We can use the GMOME icons on the same basis that we use things
> such as oldxlib: saying that they are not part of Emacs, but
> used by Emacs and distributed with Emacs."

Then the policy has changed completely.  (The reason I raised it is
that rms insisted on an assignment for the original gtk icons before I
could use them, and we went to some trouble to get it.)  I guess it
would be helpful if a policy on this sort of thing was clearly stated
in the maintainers' manual and was more constant.

> Exactly where we shall say this I don't know.

I think information on the origin should go in ChangeLog.  If I was
looking for copyright info (as I often had to do), I'd see who was
credited there and then check the assignments file for the apparent
author.