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+* The wrench icon that is superimposed on Emacs's own icon in
+  drawable/emacs_wrench.png was released into the Public Domain by the
+  Tango Desktop Project.
+  <https://web.archive.org/web/20230207074050/https://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project>