[theme-reviewers] external style sheets

[Ryan Frankel]

There is also the consideration of the advantages a CDN hosted font brings.

Ryan

On Nov 15, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Daniel Fenn wrote:

> Just a quick question, what the max file size that can be uploaded?
> Just hat someone may include 2 or more fonts and make the zip file too
> big to upload.
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> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Edward Caissie
>> <edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Given Otto's two comments I am seriously thinking we should be, starting with 3.3, RECOMMENDING all Theme assets (CSS, images, code, etc.) be included with the Theme package/archive; then moving to REQUIRED with 3.4 ... although the only real go-forward issue I see at the moment is the inclusion of Google-fonts (low-risk but still contravening this idea) this can be addressed as well (per Otto).
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>> Note that all of Google's Web Fonts are available for download and can
>> be easily included in a theme without too much trouble. Only potential
>> issue is size, which I'm still thinking about.
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>> Most of G's fonts are using the SIL Open Font License, which is GPLv2
>> compatible. Some of the rest are using the Apache 2 License which is
>> not GPLv2 compatible.
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>> If a theme includes a font (or anything else reasonably separate),
>> make sure that:
>> a) the license for that font is documented in the theme's readme or in
>> the stylesheet (all relevant licenses should always be listed
>> somewhere)
>> b) that the license is a compatible one (listed here:
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#GPL-Compatible_Font_Licenses)
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>> -Otto
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