free logo for datasheets

[Jonas Stein]

Kicad uses an icon
datasheet.svg
which looks to me like a copy of the adobe logo as shown here:

http://www.adobe.com/legal/permissions/icons-web-logos.html

Besides legal problems with this logo, advertising a propriety pdf reader does not fit well into free software.
I suggest to use a neutral icon instead.

[Chris Pavlina (pavlina-chris)]

For quick reference:

https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/master/bitmaps_png/sources/datasheet.svg

Same logo as KDE4/Oxygen:

https://github.com/pasnox/oxygen-icons-png/blob/master/oxygen/256x256/mimetypes/application-pdf.png

And KDE5/Breeze:

https://github.com/NitruxSA/breeze-icon-theme/blob/master/Breeze/mimetypes/64/application-pdf.svg

We're not the only ones, at least...

GNOME's generic "document" icon isn't too bad, though I'm not sure how well it represents its meaning...

https://misc.c4757p.com/x-office-document.png

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

It does by no means look like a copy. It looks similar yes, but that is what you would expect. We don't advertise it as such, pdf is a widespread format by far, we just give the user an easy an recognizable way for him to change which reader he wants to use.