Re: Copyright Violations using Apple Icons in own Applications?
Re: Copyright Violations using Apple Icons in own Applications?
- Subject: Re: Copyright Violations using Apple Icons in own Applications?
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 10:16:02 -0800
On Nov 3, 2006, at 1:33 AM, Scott Stevenson wrote:
On Nov 3, 2006, at 1:14 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
There's links to nice royalty-free icons for some common things
on cocoadev.com and carbondev.com, I think. If those aren't to
your liking, you can always contract someone or buy some from one
of the various stock icons pages.
http://cocoadev.com/index.pl?RoyaltyFreeIcons
For what it's worth, I think using Apple icons is clearly okay in
certain cases, such as the standard blue folder, the gear (action
menu), and the hard drive icon. These are part of the OS itself,
and the user needs see them as-is if they refer to the same thing
in your app.
Don't invent a new hard drive or folder icon.
Still, it would be a bad idea to copy those TIFF or ICNS files into
your app bundle. There are APIs to get most of the standard icons.
Not all of them are Cocoa APIs, but it is still worth using the API
even if you have to delve into Carbon. Otherwise, when Apple changes
the icon in an OS update, your app will look funny or outdated. (This
isn't a hypothetical situation—I'm pretty sure that several OS icons
have changed since 10.0.0. And of course all the icons changed
between 9.x and 10.0, and the Carbon apps which did things "the right
way" just worked out of the box.)
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