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

[Sayontan Sinha]

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 http://www.delicious.com/stacks/view/SC3hpq, wherein
quite a few are GPL compatible (http://nodeca.github.com/fontomas/ is one),
or http://openfontlibrary.org/.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:

> We definitely do need more good choices - but not GPL!
>
> If such a thing were to be kickstarted, it would only make sense if it
> were aimed at projects other than just WordPress, and there's a large
> part of the open-source world that can't or won't work with GPL
> because it's too restrictive. At any rate, GPL is designed for
> software, and the terms don't make sense for design. CC-Zero (which is
> just a formalized way of releasing something into the Public Domain)
> is probably the safest bet here. And yes, it's the only CC License
> that's GPL-compatible ;)
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Greg Priday <greg at siteorigin.com> wrote:
> > Nicely spotted Kirk, I actually stopped reading Orman's license before
> > it got to that big, bold, important part. My bad.
> >
> > There are some decent GPL icon packs - but I think our theming
> > community needs way more. Perhaps there'd be some interest in a
> > Kickstarter/Crowd Funding project to hire a few designers to create
> > some fresh GPL icon packs. What do you guys think?
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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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