I'm actually not seeing anything inherently wrong with this approach, with respect to licensing issues. It's not like there's anything *wrong* with FamFamFam Silk icons; they're just not licensed GPL-compatibly, and thus cannot be hosted by/distributed from <a href="http://wordpress.org">wordpress.org</a>.<div>
<br></div><div>Some caveats:</div><div><br></div><div>1. UX (as Otto mentioned)</div><div>2. Source control: we are generally quite hesitant of repository-hosted Themes linking to arbitrary, third-party resources (for hopefully obvious reasons). If it is something that the user manually downloads, and then manually uploads/installs, that's one thing. But the Theme *auto*-downloading/installing might be another thing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If there is a way for Themes to do this safely/securely, I'm all for it.</div><div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Doug Stewart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zamoose@gmail.com" target="_blank">zamoose@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Emil Uzelac <<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com">emil@themeid.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">> CC to be accepted! We're not going to do that nor "drive down to that road<br>
> again". It's way too much complicated and it would create many legal issues.<br>
> WordPress is GPL and everything else must be as well.<br>
> Sorry Doug, nothing personal.<br>
<br>
</div>You missed my point. I'd like a code methodology (implemented in GPL'd<br>
PHP) that would be able to go out and download CC-licensed icons *at<br>
the end user's prompting*. Ideally, I would have a nice little banner<br>
in the theme options page saying something to the extent of "This<br>
theme looks much better with the Silk Icons installed. Click here to<br>
download and install them automatically." Using WP Filesystem, of<br>
course.<br>
<br>
Anyone see a downside to that?<br>
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--<br>
-Doug<br>
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