Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

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>
> Someone™ needs to invest the time and effort to figure out the legal
> issues, find the icons that we want out of those which are legally
> fit, and post the resulting information. We did that process at the
> time (AFAIR, quite a few of our icons come from Gnome/GTK), and it
> wasn't easy.

What was the problem exactly? Gnome is a venerable free software
project, so I assume they pay attention to proper licensing.

Isn't their icons safe to use if they publish them with a GPL2 license?