Use of smileys according to GPL

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

On Jan 4, 2008 12:54 PM, Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net> wrote:
> > 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.

Don't know if this is uncalled for, but just to clarify, "link" does
not mean hyperlink, but means "linking" in a programming sense
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linker)
Hyperlinking with the images is perfectly fine and doesn't mean you
have to release the source of the target (impossible in most cases
anyway).

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~Nirbheek Chauhan