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Giving your website or application a unique look has never been easier. There are literally hundreds of websites that will sell you icons that are royalty free...See more » Giving your website or application a unique look has never been easier. There are literally hundreds of websites that will sell you icons that are royalty free for whatever purpose you desire. Royalty free does not necessarily mean free, you still have to pay for whatever it is you want. With royalty free items, the creator retains all copyrights and publishing rights. You, the average web guy, simply purchase the right to use and publish the items as specified under the terms of usage (you must agree before you can buy). Usually, these terms include a provision to not sell derivative works nor redistribute the content. Royalty free sounds great, but it isn’t truly free — it costs money. Enter the Creative Commons (CC) license, General Public License (GPL), and the Lesser General Public License (LGPL). All offer differing levels of ownership and attribution rights to the original work as well as provide a mechanism to allow people to give away their intellectual property for use to the public. I am not a lawyer (IANAL), this is simply how I understand it (TISHIUI). The list below represents some amazing work by various artists who have made their work available to the general public. Each artist has a link to their homepage, the license of the released work, and an attached sample of what you can download by following the named link. Note that what you view doesn’t represent the entire work, only a small portion of it to give you an idea of the icon style.See less »