[HN Gopher] Svgrepo: Browse 300.000 SVG Vectors and Icons
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Svgrepo: Browse 300.000 SVG Vectors and Icons
Author : marcodiego
Score : 91 points
Date : 2021-02-12 19:47 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.svgrepo.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.svgrepo.com)
| michaelpb wrote:
| I was hoping this was a resuscitation of Open Clip Art. I used to
| use it so much with Inkscape -- rarely I'd use anything as is,
| but it was great to have a bunch of different shapes at my
| finger-tips for tracing, rapid prototyping of graphics, etc.
| Everything was public domain which made licensing a non-issue.
|
| But on the front page: "Most icons and vectors useable for your
| commercial projects without any royalties" -- This worries me, as
| it makes it sound like some of these ARE NOT under free licenses,
| and I'll have to check each one. Is there a "PD only" view?
| patrickg wrote:
| https://openclipart.org is (somewhat) back. I think this was
| better browsable and searchable in the past. At least there is
| some contents available.
|
| These pages are really valuable.
| pbhjpbhj wrote:
| Did they ever detail what happened, they kept saying nothing
| has been lost and they were ready to return the site, any
| minute now, I gave up looking after a few months assuming
| they'd had some sort of deletion accident they weren't
| prepared to confess.
|
| IMO contributors deserve to know what happened still. I think
| there was a lot of agreement that a torrent backup should be
| made available so the responsibility for the OCAL community's
| work didn't have to rest with one (?) person who seemingly
| didn't have time to manage things.
| rectang wrote:
| Provenance tracking is impractical with a site like this.
|
| Provenance tracking is a necessity for non-toy projects.
|
| So a site like this has limited utility.
| jandrese wrote:
| I'd read that as the author thinks everything is in the Public
| Domain, but they don't want to be liable if some big work uses
| something from their page and some guy materializes out of the
| woodwoork with a billion dollar lawsuit.
| michaelpb wrote:
| Gotcha! Well, I might feel okay then using these for
| placeholder, but not for anything serious... while I wait for
| an Inkscape-integrated clipart revival :)
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| Yup. If they can't guarantee provenance and license for reuse,
| then it's worthless to me.
|
| But that's just me. YMMV.
| adamgamble wrote:
| We've had to tackled the provenance problem at my company
| (https://www.vecteezy.com) by getting all of our content
| directly from the original designers. It was a crap ton of work
| and took us several years, but that allowed us to also back it
| up with legal indemnification. We now have a team of 18 folks
| reviewing all our content for legal and copyright issues now
| and we back it up with up to $100k in legal indemnity. So far
| it seems to be helping.
| kristopolous wrote:
| Reading this first as "SV-grep-o" and then entering in a regex
| into the search and realizing "oh, svg repo" ... yet another way
| linux has warped my mind.
| ruffrey wrote:
| Quite nice. Though it has adverts for Shutterstock which I
| initially took for native site content.
| teknopaul wrote:
| me too. saw dark patterns, left.
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