[theme-reviewers] GPL-compatible social media icon sets

[Doug Stewart]

I've considered adding a way for users to download and install
CC-licensed images/icons post-install to avoid this sort of nonsense.

Artists: do the GPL stuff a solid, huh?

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Kirk Wight <kwight at kwight.ca> wrote:
> Orman Clark's icon set is not GPL-compatible. From the licensing page:
>
> "You are not permitted to make the resources found on Premium Pixels
> available for distribution elsewhere “as is” without prior consent."
>
> The best list so far is still the one mentioned on the Theme Review Codex
> page:
>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#GPL-Compatible_Icon_Sets
>
> Be careful when evaluating other icon sets. A lot of them are "open source",
> "free for personal and commercial use" or "Creative Commons", but these are
> not necessarily GPL-compatible. A good resource is the FSF's own comments
> about various licenses:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
>
>
> On 30 April 2012 07:06, Greg Priday <greg at siteorigin.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Syahir
>>
>> It'd be great if Emil would release the PSDs for his set. They're
>> really top notch - it'd be nice to customize them.
>>
>> As for other sets. Orman Clark released a set
>>
>> http://www.premiumpixels.com/freebies/buddycons-126-free-vector-based-social-media-icons/
>>
>> I think his license is GPL compatible
>> http://www.premiumpixels.com/licensing/
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Greg Priday
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Syahir Hakim <khairulsyahir at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > I'm looking for suggestions from anyone for a GPL-compatible social
>> > media
>> > icon sets. I know of two currently, Emil's social media icon set and
>> > ElegantThemes social media icon set. However, Emil's icon set colour
>> > scheme
>> > do not match the theme I intend to use it for, and the ElegantThemes
>> > icon
>> > set is a little bit old and outdated.
>> >
>> > I've been searching for this for a few days now, so any suggestions
>> > would be
>> > much appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > --
>> > Regards,
>> > Syahir Hakim
>> >
>> >
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-Doug