Developer Question: Vista Icons

[Berry J.]

Hello, I'm a french software developer and a have a question concerning
the Vista icons.
Is it allowed / legal to have one or two Vista Icons from the RC2 Build
in our application (in c++ resource file)? The application is a System
Tweak Utiltiy for Windows XP and Vista.
Best regards, Berry

 

[Berry J.]

Hello, I'm a french software developer and a have a question concerning
the Vista icons.
Is it allowed / legal to have one or two Vista Icons from the RC2 Build
in our application (in c++ resource file)? The application is a System
Tweak Utiltiy for Windows XP and Vista.
Best regards, Berry

Edit: The application is freeware.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Not without explicit permission from Microsoft.

 

[Guest]

If the icon is in an icon resource file that is part of Windows, just point
your app to the icon in that resource file. Then you're legally using a part
of Windows.

 

[Marc]

If the icon is in an icon resource file that is part of Windows, just point
your app to the icon in that resource file. Then you're legally using a part
of Windows.

ok thanks. i asked because there are many apps which are using xp icons.