I definitely understand your ethical concerns. Last night I started drawing replacements for the 40x40 item icons, in the hope that we could come up with a drop-in replacement and not have to use SOE's icon set.
In the end, OpenEQ needs three types of content: zones, models, and bitmaps. From what I've seen of Khan's work we can probably get zones and UI bitmaps covered :P but that leaves mob (and item) models and item bitmaps. I emailed daeken a copy of what I did last night: I drew 50 different bitmaps for rings and saved the lot as a Photoshop file (so it retains its color depth and transparency). Maybe instead of coding for OpenEQ, would you like to try adding a few more? I think if we pass this around we can probably come up with a complete replacement for their item icons in a week or two. It's not everything OpenEQ needs, but it would be a start. Another possibility is I could send it to Khan: he has that great new website for content and would be a good place for hosting them...
Edit: drawing more rings...up to 60 now.
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