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I would say its not legal. Many icons are licensed "for personal use only". So putting them on a website with advertising seems to be against the license.

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I only put icons with this license on the site when I have permission from the author.

Ah, ok! Didnt think of that.

I saw one that had a free for commercial use only licence. That was different.

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