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

Mon Apr 30 17:54:07 UTC 2012

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.

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.

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.

On 30 April 2012 12:57, Sayontan Sinha <sayontan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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