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

[Srikanth Koneru]

Yes, gpl compatible font sets are hard to find, genericons and font awesome
are god sent :)


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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