Re: Apple system icons: guidelines for use in Cocoa applications?
Re: Apple system icons: guidelines for use in Cocoa applications?
- Subject: Re: Apple system icons: guidelines for use in Cocoa applications?
- From: Keith Blount <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:16:51 -0700 (PDT)
Hello,
I'm curious about this, too. There are a number of
shareware non-opensource programs out there that use
Apple icons (DevonThink is one that comes to mind
immediately, but is only one of many that I have come
across), so I hope Apple are flexible about this.
I asked this question before myself - see:
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/2004/12/2/122900
In response to that thread, John Randolph gave me a
name at apple that I might ask, and I e-mailed that
person but never received a reply. I also sent e-mails
to the Apple legal department and developer connection
people trying to get information. The ADC people just
told me to refer to the legal people; the legal people
sent me a standard e-mail saying they would get back
to me in three weeks. Well, that was over seven months
ago and I never heard another thing from them. So we
can only conclude that it's not something they're too
worried about...
If anyone does have any answers, I would love to know
too, as I would like to use a couple of standard icons
in my own shareware app.
All the best,
Keith
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Hello,
I'm curious how other view the question of using Apple
system icons in
their Cocoa applications, for toolbars especially.
I've seen so many
shareware and open-source Cocoa applications that do
this--either use
the icons (i.e. file icon, trash can, info icon)
directly or with
modification--that I find it hard to believe Apple
opposes this
practice. Applications that use the system icons do
look better, more
"native" or "Aqufified," than apps that use
third-party icons.
Yet I'm confident the icons are copyrighted by Apple,
and the absence
of
documentation on this issue tells me that Apple does
not want to
explicitly license their use in third-party
applications.
This question concerns me because I'm trying to decide
how to handle
this in a Cocoa app I'm developing. As it will be
open-source/freeware,
I can't afford to hire an icon designer, and
commercial third-party
packages actually forbid redistribution, which
prevents using them in
OSS.
With the full understanding that there are probably no
IP lawyers on
this list, I'm still curious to hear how others
approach this issue.
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Cheers,
Kevin Walzer, PhD
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