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

[Chip Bennett]

I'm actually not seeing anything inherently wrong with this approach, with
respect to licensing issues. It's not like there's anything *wrong* with
FamFamFam Silk icons; they're just not licensed GPL-compatibly, and thus
cannot be hosted by/distributed from wordpress.org.

Some caveats:

1. UX (as Otto mentioned)
2. Source control: we are generally quite hesitant of repository-hosted
Themes linking to arbitrary, third-party resources (for hopefully obvious
reasons). If it is something that the user manually downloads, and then
manually uploads/installs, that's one thing. But the Theme
*auto*-downloading/installing might be another thing.

If there is a way for Themes to do this safely/securely, I'm all for it.

Chip

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> You missed my point. I'd like a code methodology (implemented in GPL'd
> PHP) that would be able to go out and download CC-licensed icons *at
> the end user's prompting*. Ideally, I would have a nice little banner
> in the theme options page saying something to the extent of "This
> theme looks much better with the Silk Icons installed. Click here to
> download and install them automatically." Using WP Filesystem, of
> course.
>
> Anyone see a downside to that?
>
>
>
> --
> -Doug
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