We got the icon in its current state from a source we believed to be public. We didn’t change it (or we would have made it green like most of our site), and had no idea it belonged to subethaedit.

Unfortunately, searching the web for “copyrighted works from which this image might be derivative” isn’t very efficient, at least until you get several thousand people looking at your site and some remember something they’ve seen before :-( Personally, the blue version reminds me of the grateful dead bears, which would have gotten us even more press.

Thanks for your understand as we suffer some minor growing pains.

This is Martin from TheCodingMonkeys.

The SubEthaEdit icon is NOT public domain and we are already talking with activeweave about their unauthorized use of our artwork.

(About the recoloring: SubEthaEdit 1.x (still available on our website) used the blue icon, that’s where it’s from.)