[theme-reviewers] License for Glyphicons is unclear

Abhik Biswas abhik at itsabhik.com
Wed Jan 23 12:32:25 UTC 2013


Thanks for the clarifications, Chip.


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> No, it is not okay to use the full Glyphicons iconset in GPL projects.
>
> Yes, it is okay to use the Halflings subset of the Glyphicons iconset, as
> licensed and released with Bootstrap, in GPL(v3) projects.
>
> The Glyphicons Halflings are a *subset* of the full Glyphicons iconset.
> Halflings, as documtned by both the Glyphicons creator (copyright holder)
> and in the Bootstrap project, are licensed under Apache 2.0. (See linked
> GitHub issue for relevant links.)
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Abhik Biswas <abhik at itsabhik.com> wrote:
>
>> So, that means it's now okay to use Glyphicons in GPL projects?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>
>>> FYI (new update):
>>> https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/3942#issuecomment-12559146
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