Re: "About Emacs" page

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Cc: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>,  jfenn@gmx.net,  
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:55:57 +0200
> 
> >>>>> On Sat, 28 Sep 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> Good idea!  Simple things first, here is 48x48 xpm version.  I have made
> >> it from PNG on the given web page.  Of course, a SVG version will
> >> require much more work.
> 
> > Thanks, added.
> 
> Shouldn't the file (or etc/images/README) have a copyright/license
> notice, or is it too simple to be copyrightable?

Feel free to add it, if you know what to say.

> I had traced the origin of the kitchen sink icon some time ago because
> Gentoo distributes it as part of the app-emacs/emacs-common package:
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/emacs-tools.git/tree/icons?h=emacs-common
> 
> The earliest instance that I could find was file src/sink.h in
> Emacs 18.41 which was released in 1987. The file didn't have any
> copyright notice back then.

IANAL, but maybe Richard (CC'ed) could help us.