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

Tue May 1 12:17:23 UTC 2012

... too bad it's not simply dictated the only acceptable license is GPLv2,
period ... no other license will be accepted. Now that would solve a lot of
these issues very quickly (*grin*)

Cais.

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:

> One more thing sorry:
>
> May I apply CC0 to computer software? If so, is there a recommended
> implementation?
>
> Yes, CC0 is suitable for dedicating your copyright and related rights in
> computer software to the public domain, to the fullest extent possible
> under law. Unlike CC licenses, which should not be used for software<http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F>,
> CC0 is compatible with many software licenses, including the GPL<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0>.
> However, *CC0 has not been approved* by the Open Source Initiative<http://opensource.org/> and
> does not license or otherwise affect any patent rights you may have. You
> may want to consider using an approved OSI license that does so instead of
> CC0, such as GPL 3.0 <http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0> or Apache
> 2.0 <http://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0>.
> This part is really important:
> *CC0 has not been approved by the Open Source Initiative *and *You may
> want to consider using an approved OSI license that does so instead of CC0,
> such as GPL 3.0 <http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0> or Apache 2.0<http://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0>
> .*
>
> Thanks,
> Emil
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry for late response:
>>
>>  *Premium Pixels is good for Themes (at least that's what Orman says)*
>>
>> Can I use your resources in a ThemeForest theme/template?
>> *Yes. No attribution required but appreciated. *
>> *C’mon Mookie, do the right thing.*
>> *
>> *
>> So it should be good for WPORG I think.
>>
>> This:
>> *"You are not permitted to make the resources found on Premium Pixels
>> available for distribution elsewhere “as is” without prior consent."*
>>
>> From what I can understand means that you cannot host the resource on
>> example.com it does not mean that you cannot use it. Read the text after
>> that
>>
>> *If you would like to feature our resources on your site, please do not
>> link directly to the resource zip files as these URLs change periodically,
>> please link to the appropriate page on PremiumPixels.com where users can
>> find their download.*
>>
>> My icons in PSD, sure, as soon as I find free time. Responsive is keeping
>> me so busy, it's getting near full-time job :)
>>
>> CC to be accepted! We're not going to do that nor "drive down to that
>> road again". It's way too much complicated and it would create many legal
>> issues. WordPress is GPL and everything else must be as well.
>> Sorry Doug, nothing personal.
>>
>> CC being compatible with GPL, that would be no.
>>
>> My E-mail to CC:
>>
>> I was wondering if any Creative Commons license is compatible with GPL.
>>> If so is there a link to that page on your site?
>>
>>
>> E-mail from CC Nathan:
>>
>> Hi Emil,
>>> My understanding is that no CC license is compatible with any
>>> GPL License.
>>
>>
>>
>> True Public Domain License or even WTFPL is always acceptable, while
>> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_FAQ (same non-GPL-Compatible) will
>> create so much issues to. The grey area what happens when "if" is in
>> question:
>>
>> A person using CC0 (called the “affirmer” in the legal code) dedicates a
>>> work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her copyright and
>>> neighboring and related rights in a work, to the fullest extent permitted
>>> by law. If the waiver isn’t effective for any reason, then CC0 acts as a
>>> license from the affirmer granting the public an unconditional,
>>> irrevocable, non exclusive, royalty free license to use the work for any
>>> purpose.
>>
>>
>> Enough said with the last quote from CC. And please I am urging you not
>> to consider anything but 100% GPL-Compatible, it's not going to work!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Emil
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Kirk Wight <kwight at kwight.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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