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

[Chip Bennett]

Bruce,

Can you link to the actual license wording/text?

Thanks,

Chip

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Bruce Wampler <weavertheme at gmail.com>wrote:

> For what it worth, the people at IconDock sent this reply to a query about
> possibly putting a more explicit license on their social icon set:
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> It means 100% free for any purpose. You may distribute or resell them as
> you like.
>
> Nick
>
> I personally think the license on the site also makes this clear, and that
> it meets all the intent of GPL.
>
> I realize that doesn't make it GPL-Compatible for the repository, but it
> does, to me, make it a safe set to use. Perhaps it could be provided via a
> user initiated upload or non-repository hosted plugin. It really is nice
> looking, and complete, and provides what is clearly a legal to use
> alternative.
>
> Since there seems to be such a demand for a nice set, perhaps there could
> be a special ruling made for this particular set to allow it into the
> repository?
>
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Syahir Hakim <khairulsyahir at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > OK, so the bottom line is can we bundle these icon sets without any
>> pre-made
>> > licences, but with the express intent that they're free for any use,
>> with
>> > WP.org repository-hosted themes?
>>
>> If you don't *know* that it is GPL-Compatible, then you cannot use it
>> in any code on WordPress.org, period.
>>
>> -Otto
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