Free Icons
- Silk Icons - under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License (use for any purpose, can modify, but have to credit author)
- Mini Icons - free for any purpose
- graphicPUSH: Free icons - under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License (use for any purpose, can modify, but have to credit author and share modifications under same license).
- IconBuffet - free icons every month (registration required). You can also buy icons from them. No royalties to pay.
- Ganato - Free Icons - in PSD (Photoshop) format
- KDE-Look.org icons - under GPL (so not sure if that would mean the page they are on has to be as well, but I assume not as the format is different)
- Sweetie | Free icon set - under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License
There is also a list that is updated @ MaxPower - Free! Icons for your website or application
There probably are more sites with free icons, which I will try to add if I find them. Tutorial on creating your own icons with GIMP: GIMP - Creating Icons.
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Comments
I am aware of Clip Art Browser (http://www.openclipart.org/wiki/index.php/Clip_Art_Browser), but have not managed to get it working. I just want to download a standalone binary of it. The extra steps often required (downloading source, compiling with appropriate tool) will prevent it ever being used by most people.
At the moment, nothing really competes with Office in terms of clipart (amount, user friendliness, browsing and searching)