Can we have the icons used in DO tutorials ?

July 16, 2015 5k views
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I love DO tutorials, especially the ones with the icons.

The one being used are clearly super nice, so I was wondering if it'd be possible to have them released so we can use them :)

Or if you use a special software, I'm really curious about its name :)

I'd love to be able to create a nice infographics/schema of my current infrastructure.

Thanks,

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jpvalery July 17, 2015

Sorry I was sure I included a link :o

I meant the icons like on this page : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/building-for-production-web-applications-backups

Especially those

Building for Production: Web Applications — Backups
by Mitchell Anicas
In this part of the "Building for Production: Web Applications" series (4 of 6), we will set up the backup system that is required to support our recovery plan. This tutorial will focus on using Bacula as a backups solution. The benefits of using a full-fledged backup system, such as Bacula, is that it gives you full control over what you back up and restore at the individual file level, and you can schedule backups and restores according to what is best for you.
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  • alph July 17, 2015

    Theoretically, I guess you can, as the work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
    Anyway, for correctness, I think it's better to drop a line to DigitalOcean just to ask for the moral permission and to tell where you're going to use their work.

    Have a nice day,
    Alfio.

  • jonaharagon July 17, 2015

    What @missaglialfio said I believe is the correct answer. I'm not sure where you're just going to get the icons though, that aren't already in a diagram. I'm sure DigitalOcean has all of them but I wouldn't know where they'd be/if they were even available for use.

    Because of the license you can modify them, but you'd have to give credit to DigitalOcean and not use it for commercial purposes.

jpvalery July 17, 2015

They replied on Twitter : it's a nogo :(

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  • alph July 18, 2015

    What did you actually ask for?
    I don't see how they could forbid you to use those icons, as they license permits to share and adapt this work.
    You should ask for more information with references to the legal terms.

  • jonaharagon July 20, 2015

    @missaglialfio I couldn't find anything about it on the @DigitalOcean Twitter, but I'd guess he asked for just the icons that weren't already in a preassembled image, like I mentioned in my comment above.

    The images themselves would be allowed for use, you'd be correct, but that doesn't mean they'd put the assets (like just an individual server icon) up to the public.

jpvalery July 18, 2015

To have the icons released so we can use them freely.

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