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bryanh
I've used icon finder hundreds of times. It's great.

I am also a fan of the Fugue icon set (http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/) with over 3000 (!) super high quality icons. There is a licensing fee if you don't want to attribute but it is pretty affordable ($60).

jcromartie
Are the icons in this set actually usable? http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:social

What are the legal issues there?

binarymax
It says at the top: License: Free for commercial use, but I also recommend going through the Readme to make absolutely sure.
jcromartie
I mean in regards to them being mostly trademarks of other companies.
shasta
You can use them for whatever you want. If you run into any legal trouble, just tell 'em shasta from the internet said you could use them.
jedsmith
That entire set looks dangerous.
henrikschroder
There's plenty of fair use cases for the trademarks of others, you're pretty much free to use them as long as you are talking about the products and companies the trademarks belong to, and not trying to abuse them for my own products.

As for why you would want to use someone else's reproductions of these trademarks instead of the official images, I have no idea...

dchest
Be careful: some icons that have free licenses actually use elements of images that are not under those licenses.

Examples:

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7395/128/finder_mac_wi... (XP wallpaper, listed under GPL license)

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7512/128/application_a... - Apple's icon

duskwuff
Most of the icons in the "Futurosoft" set you've linked look like they were ripped from various sources (mostly from Windows 7, with a few from OS X). It looks like the set was syndicated from kde-look.org, and I've shot them a message about the situation.
iconfinder
They were syndicated from Futuresoft - I will look them through and remove those from OS X and Windows. None of the icons were specifically from Win 7 since Futuresoft was released many years ago.
duskwuff
Strange - looking at a lot of the icons, like the ones following, they certainly must have been designed to resemble Windows icons, but I can't find the exact icons they're modeled after. I'm really not sure where these would stand, as far as copyright goes - a number of them have enough resemblance to real Windows icons (or other trademarks) that you'd probably get legal grief for trying to use them in your own product, for instance.

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7043/128/aim_icon

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7121/128/sonic_icon

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7175/128/folder_window...

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7365/128/staroffice_ic...

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7394/128/users_windows...

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7563/128/lib_wine_icon

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7609/128/mp3_sound_ico...

petervandijck
I was going to say: since when does stuff like this get on HN, but it's actually a pretty awesome site.
iconfinder
Yeah, it's not the usual stuff for HN.

Thanks anyway.

jonespen
Its also a great source for finding design metaphors, icon patterns etc.
virii
Iconfinder is great, yes. I also like Picons - royalty-free vector icons. Great for commercial projects. Cheap and good looking, check it out: http://picons.me
texel
And still, I can't find an icon for macvim that's not horrible.