[theme-reviewers] Entypo Font

Doug Stewart zamoose at gmail.com
Sat Mar 9 23:09:00 UTC 2013


The secondary social icons font brings up an interesting question, though:
what of trademarks? The Entypo site notes that the actual images/glyphs are
TM/© of their respective social networking sites, yet the font is
SIL-licensed. Are those icons allowable in a .Org theme?


On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> You're actually good here. Font's are released under SIL and there
> should not be any issues with the license.
>
> I'm assuming that this is it:
> http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/visual/0.2.1/fonts/
>
> Emil
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If pictograms are licensed under CC BY 3.0, then they should not be in
>> this list
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#GPL-Compatible_Icon_Sets
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Devin Price <devin at wptheming.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks.  I've submitted a theme that uses glyphs from the Entypo web
>>> font:
>>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.**org/ticket/11529<http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11529>
>>>
>>> I think there's a little confusion with this one because the website
>>> says everything is under the "CC BY-SA 3.0" license, but clarifies in the
>>> footer that:  " Current release is 2.0. The Entypo pictograms are licensed
>>> under CC BY 3.0 and the font under SIL Open Font License."
>>>
>>> See website: http://entypo.com
>>>
>>> I just want to make sure that using the font version of this is fine
>>> since the SIL Open Font license is compatible with GPL- even though the
>>> pictograms would not be because they require attribution.
>>>
>>> I also added this resource to the GPL compatible icon sets on the wiki,
>>> so if there's an issue I will take that down:
>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/**Theme_Review#GPL-Compatible_**Icon_Sets<http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#GPL-Compatible_Icon_Sets>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Devin Price
>>> http://wptheming.com
>>>
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-Doug
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