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Hello,

In order to avoid possible trademark issues and such, I'd like to point out that the energy shield icon used in Factorio comes from another game, Eve-Online (which they have been using for the last 10 years and which I have been playing since 2006). Here is a link to their official wiki https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Item ... d_Boosters .

This being said I luv the game and I'm looking forward to new updates. You have done a great job so far! Please do continue!

Regards,
Fl4sh

I can tell you there are other things that arent originally for the game, and I dont think every small piece of art is copyrighted.
Also they know where they took it from xD

Actually, I took the shield from different source, so it probably was copied more times
Anyway, we plan to make our version of all the icons eventually ofcourse.

oh, that could end very bad... Never "just use" a picture from a side if you are not sure it is not copyrighted.
Is this icon free to use even for commercial products? If not: That's very risky, better change it immediately. Lawsuits can be a very expensive affair to deal with!

@Nova agreed that this is potentially quite dangerous. Actually we hope to have our own icons / items set for 0.8 or 0.9.

only way to get punished - recieve warning and ignore it multiple times, it's unlikely that anyone will fill copyright claim for single icon.

Never underestimate the "value" of even a single icon. Over 1000€ (~ 1350$) is not unrealistic. That's maybe not the real value, but some kind of "we want money from you. much money."