Use of smileys according to GPL

[Mark Doliner]

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:06:55 +0100, Seph M. Soliman wrote
> Hi,
> 
> I am currenly developing a forum for a client that has a website. 
> The client wants to use graphical smileys for which we went through 
> a couple of smiley sets to get a feeling of the smiley theme-style 
> she was looking for. It turns out that the Tango project and the 
> Pidgin smileys are very interesting, but both released under GPL.
> 
> So my question is: Are we allowed to use the smiley icons for the 
> website without open-sourcing the entire project?

Yes, I believe that is fine.  If you were to "link" something with the images
and release them then you would be obliged to release the "source" for the
stuff that you linked to the images.  But since these are images we're talking
about that doesn't really make any sense.

And of course the rest of the GPL still applies to modified versions of the
images, attribution, etc.

-Mark