[theme-reviewers] Using Icons for which license is unspecified

Edward Caissie edward.caissie at gmail.com
Mon Sep 2 21:52:50 UTC 2013


Good find, Srikanth! I just made a quick cursory look at the linked page
... I didn't dig too far as I didn't expect them icons to pass the 100%
WordPress GPL-compatible guideline (there are actually very few icon sets
that do).

Edward Caissie
aka Cais.


On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Rohit Tripathi <rohitink at live.com> wrote:

> Okay. Thanks a lot.
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 01:41:18 +0530
> From: tskk79 at gmail.com
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Using Icons for which license is unspecified
>
>
> http://picons.me/license.php
> so many restrictions in "prohibited uses" section which will put those
> icons in "not gpl compatible" box rather than "not clear" ?
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I'd have to agree, the license isn't 100% clear ... although if you can
> get a written clearer licensing statement from the icon author they may
> still be usable.
>
> Edward Caissie
> aka Cais.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>
> License is not clear, therefore I would vote no and go with
> http://genericons.com instead :-)
> On Sep 2, 2013 2:32 PM, "Rohit Tripathi" <rohitink at live.com> wrote:
>
>  I am willing to use the following fonts in my theme.
>
> http://picons.me/#social
>
> the license for these fonts are not specified, it just says they are free
> to use for personal and commercial purposes. Do these images fall under
> public domain, and can be used?
>
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