[theme-reviewers] bundled images licenses

[Srikanth Koneru]

A little confused, what i want to know is, can i download the twitter logo
from here https://twitter.com/logo and make an icon and release the icon as
gpl


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> If you are not the owner of a work, you cannot re-license that work.
>
> So, if you get a social network icon directly from that social network's
> site, and the site hasn't distributed that icon under a GPL-compatible
> license, then you can't arbitrarily re-license it as GPL. Instead, you'll
> need to find a GPL-licensed icon to use instead (or make your own, and then
> license them under GPL).
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If i download the social icons from respective social networks and create
>> social icons, can i license them as gpl?
>> Because most social networks have rules about how to use their logos and
>> thats not GPL?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Well, if you've said that "bundled images are too GPL licensed", then
>>> you've explicitly stated the license. :)
>>>
>>> Just be sure that the "unless stated otherwise" is accompanied by
>>> actually stating otherwise, where applicable.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Abhik Biswas <abhik at itsabhik.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chip,
>>>> That's my theme Paul is reviewing. I need a little more help here.
>>>>
>>>> Since those social icons are downloaded directly from their official
>>>> sites, do I really have to mention the license? Or just a note about that
>>>> will be suffice?
>>>> I am thinking something like this in the *readme.txt*.
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>>>     License:
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>>> The Theme, WPBoxes, is licensed under GPLv3.
>>>>
>>>> The Social Media icons, bundled images are too GPL licensed and owned
>>>> by the respective sites, unless stated otherwise.
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Please share your thoughts
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You should require the user to state the license explicitly. The links
>>>>> to the source information are good, and should be retained. But the license
>>>>> terms for any and all bundled resources need to be included in the Theme
>>>>> itself, so that end users and downstream developers don't have to go
>>>>> searching for license information.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Paul de Wouters <
>>>>> pauldewouters at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm reviewing a theme which has a number of bundled social media
>>>>>> icons and another one that I traced back here
>>>>>> http://rocketdock.com/addon/icons/2724
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I asked the author to provide links to the original sources of the
>>>>>> icons and he did
>>>>>> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/10557/resources.txt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> but nowhere is the license stated. What do other reviewers do in this
>>>>>> case?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>>
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