While icon fonts licensed SIL are GPL-compatible, the problem often comes when you want to use just a subset of that font's glyphs to minimize downloads (including 100-200K of fonts for a few icons doesn't make sense to me). This requires creating your own font out of the desired icons themselves and, unfortunately, a lot of the icons used to create the SIL-licensed fonts are themselves not GPL-compatible. CC-BY-SA seems very common for free icons and, as mentioned above, the only GPL-compatible CC license is CC0. <div>
<br></div><div>Fontomas is not a font but a service for creating these sub-set fonts, and the icon sets used are not GPL-compatible (Entypo and Iconic icons are both CC-BY-SA, WebSymbols I couldn't find solid info on). Free to use and distribute in any personal or professional project, but not GPL-compatible.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If submitted to the WordPress theme repo, a theme including the full Iconic webfont could be accepted, but not a subset webfont generated by Fontomas.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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On 30 April 2012 12:57, Sayontan Sinha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sayontan@gmail.com" target="_blank">sayontan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
One thing you can consider is using Icon Fonts. They will give you the flexibility to define your own color scheme and use them in combination with the fonts to make social media icons. There are quite a few free ones available. Check out <a href="http://www.delicious.com/stacks/view/SC3hpq" target="_blank">http://www.delicious.com/stacks/view/SC3hpq</a>, wherein quite a few are GPL compatible (<a href="http://nodeca.github.com/fontomas/" target="_blank">http://nodeca.github.com/fontomas/</a> is one), or <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/" target="_blank">http://openfontlibrary.org/</a>.<div class="HOEnZb">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Amy Hendrix <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sabreuse@gmail.com" target="_blank">sabreuse@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
We definitely do need more good choices - but not GPL!<br>
<br>
If such a thing were to be kickstarted, it would only make sense if it<br>
were aimed at projects other than just WordPress, and there's a large<br>
part of the open-source world that can't or won't work with GPL<br>
because it's too restrictive. At any rate, GPL is designed for<br>
software, and the terms don't make sense for design. CC-Zero (which is<br>
just a formalized way of releasing something into the Public Domain)<br>
is probably the safest bet here. And yes, it's the only CC License<br>
that's GPL-compatible ;)<br>
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Greg Priday <<a href="mailto:greg@siteorigin.com" target="_blank">greg@siteorigin.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Nicely spotted Kirk, I actually stopped reading Orman's license before<br>
> it got to that big, bold, important part. My bad.<br>
><br>
> There are some decent GPL icon packs - but I think our theming<br>
> community needs way more. Perhaps there'd be some interest in a<br>
> Kickstarter/Crowd Funding project to hire a few designers to create<br>
> some fresh GPL icon packs. What do you guys think?<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Doug Stewart <<a href="mailto:zamoose@gmail.com" target="_blank">zamoose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I've considered adding a way for users to download and install<br>
>> CC-licensed images/icons post-install to avoid this sort of nonsense.<br>
>><br>
>> Artists: do the GPL stuff a solid, huh?<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Kirk Wight <<a href="mailto:kwight@kwight.ca" target="_blank">kwight@kwight.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Orman Clark's icon set is not GPL-compatible. From the licensing page:<br>
>>><br>
>>> "You are not permitted to make the resources found on Premium Pixels<br>
>>> available for distribution elsewhere “as is” without prior consent."<br>
>>><br>
>>> The best list so far is still the one mentioned on the Theme Review Codex<br>
>>> page:<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#GPL-Compatible_Icon_Sets" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#GPL-Compatible_Icon_Sets</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> Be careful when evaluating other icon sets. A lot of them are "open source",<br>
>>> "free for personal and commercial use" or "Creative Commons", but these are<br>
>>> not necessarily GPL-compatible. A good resource is the FSF's own comments<br>
>>> about various licenses:<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html</a><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On 30 April 2012 07:06, Greg Priday <<a href="mailto:greg@siteorigin.com" target="_blank">greg@siteorigin.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Hi Syahir<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> It'd be great if Emil would release the PSDs for his set. They're<br>
>>>> really top notch - it'd be nice to customize them.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> As for other sets. Orman Clark released a set<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> <a href="http://www.premiumpixels.com/freebies/buddycons-126-free-vector-based-social-media-icons/" target="_blank">http://www.premiumpixels.com/freebies/buddycons-126-free-vector-based-social-media-icons/</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I think his license is GPL compatible<br>
>>>> <a href="http://www.premiumpixels.com/licensing/" target="_blank">http://www.premiumpixels.com/licensing/</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Hope that helps.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Best Regards,<br>
>>>> Greg Priday<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Syahir Hakim <<a href="mailto:khairulsyahir@gmail.com" target="_blank">khairulsyahir@gmail.com</a>><br>
>>>> wrote:<br>
>>>> > Hi everyone,<br>
>>>> ><br>
>>>> > I'm looking for suggestions from anyone for a GPL-compatible social<br>
>>>> > media<br>
>>>> > icon sets. I know of two currently, Emil's social media icon set and<br>
>>>> > ElegantThemes social media icon set. However, Emil's icon set colour<br>
>>>> > scheme<br>
>>>> > do not match the theme I intend to use it for, and the ElegantThemes<br>
>>>> > icon<br>
>>>> > set is a little bit old and outdated.<br>
>>>> ><br>
>>>> > I've been searching for this for a few days now, so any suggestions<br>
>>>> > would be<br>
>>>> > much appreciated.<br>
>>>> ><br>
>>>> > Thanks!<br>
>>>> ><br>
>>>> > --<br>
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>>>> > Syahir Hakim<br>
>>>> ><br>
>>>> ><br>
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