[Bug 567678] Review Request: Cameramonitor - Notification icon when webcam is active

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--- Comment #6 from Andrew Dingman <adingman at redhat.com> 2010-02-24 05:44:00 EST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> The icon of the application is HAL from the movie '2001'. I guess having these
> icons in the tarball is a showstopper for us because they are definitely not
> FOSS. 
> 
> Spot, can you please look at this?    

FWIW, this software is packaged in Debian, which I assume means it passed
muster with debian-legal. Are we sure the images aren't FOSS? The upstream
author hasn't indicated any other license that I see, and it seems unlikely
that they were stolen from the movie rather than drawn with the movie as
inspiration. HAL's cameras from 2001 are enough of a cultural icon that I'd
expect the reference to pass as fair use, though I admit I have no legal
training to base that on.

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