Apart from the various sources listed here, all the smileys found on this site were found in the public domain, i.e other internet forums and are assumed to be in the public domain or intended for use by the public. I watch my logs and locate the forums where people hotlink to my smileys, where I often find smileys that have not previously been added to this archive. This means I have no way to determine actual ownership of any particular smiley. With the exception of the following:

Credits
Merv's Smileys, there is no information on Merv's Smileys apart from the page they originally reside on here.

There are a fair few smileys that originate from this site, Fools Town, hence the link in the fetaured links section, if you're looking for the best smiley site on the net, this is probably one of them, he even has a walkthrough teaching you how to make your own smileys.

Recently I've been talking with the author of GreenSmilies.com and he's kindly let me use some of his smileys for this site, his site is in German but he is working on translations as we speak into English, he has a fair amount of very original smileys on his site and they're all pretty cool so his site is worth checking out too!

I've just found these Tuzki Bunny Emoticons, they originate from This Site, (I think, I don't speak Chinese unfortunately), although the images visitors of FreeSmileys.org site hotlink to are on my site the linkback codes lead to Ms. Wang's.

Note for Smiley Creators
If you are a smiley creator and see one of your smileys on this site and would like proper credit, your own gallery or even removal of the said smiley, drop me a line and I'm sure we can come to some agreement. In the case of wanting a smiley removed I will need the smiley filename and the link to the page where the smiley resides on before I can delete it but I have no problems complying to such a request should that be your choice.

Footnote
www.FreeSmileys.org has always been a free archive and although there are ads on the site we do not incentivise those ads nor charge for any sort of premium access in any way. It is a free to use archive by anyone who wishes and is able to do so. We realise that not everyone is able to or can afford to host their own site and store their own smileys there, so we are willing to host them for the public free of charge, We do this because we love smileys and believe everyone should have the chance to use them to bring colour to the net and to their words.

Smileys really are a wonderful thing on the net and we intend to promote their use where we can but not at the expense of the creators as mentioned above.