In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the deal they offered the freelancer doing the port was a percentage-of-net deal (you couldn't imagine the idiocy of the arguments over that issue when it came to Amithlon!) --- and as these copies are obviously going out for E0.00 net, H&P are probably getting these icon sets for literally nix.
Of course, that's assuming they don't declare those copies of AE for OS4 to be "promotional" in the first place --- considering that repeated requests for a report what the 47 "promotional" copies of AmigaOS XL were used for (a report, I might add, which they were contractually required to provide) were utterly ignored, it seems not unreasonable to wonder how loosely they might define "promotional"....
Of course, I am somewhat biased by past experience --- but if anyone even considers taking part in this "competition" (competitions have rules, and clear statements regarding the ownership of intellectual property involved, and sometimes even webpages containing more than an image referring to that very same webpage for further information), then make *damn* sure you do not assign H&P any rights you might want to keep. Write it down. Make them sign it. Do not send them anything until you have gone through that process. *Then* watch them like a hawk, because they really don't care what rights they do or don't have.
I guess with H&P dabbling in Amiga affairs again, it's time to mail Garry Hare some sales reports
