[theme-reviewers] License for Glyphicons is unclear

[Doug Stewart]

I'm obviously confused, then, because
http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/ says that it's "the iconic font
designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap". I guess I conflated the two?


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure how Font Awesome factors in here?
>
> Glyphicons license:
> http://glyphicons.com/glyphicons-licenses/
>
> Twitter Bootstrap license:
> https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/README.md
> https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE
>
> From the above link, here is the exact statement from the Glyphicons
> author:
>
> GLYPHICONS *FREE*
>
> are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY
> 3.0) <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en>. The GLYPHICONS
> FREE can be used both commercially and for personal use, but you must
> always add a link to glyphicons.com <http://www.glyphicons.com/> in a
> prominent place (e.g. the footer of a website), include the CC-BY license
> and the reference toglyphicons.com <http://www.glyphicons.com/> on every
> page using GLYPHICONS.
>
> *Glyphicons Halflings are also a part of Bootstrap by Twitter<http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/>,
> and are released under the same license as Bootstrap.* While you are not
> required to include attribution on your Bootstrap-based projects, I’d
> certainly appreciate a visibile link back to glyphicons.com<http://www.glyphicons.com/> in
> any place you find appropriate (footer, docs, etc).
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> These "Halflings" -- is that what's covered by Font Awesome?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Abhik Biswas <abhik at itsabhik.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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