[theme-reviewers] SIL Open Font License

[Emil Uzelac]

SIL is 100% GPL-Compatible ;)

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Siobhan Bamber <siobhanbamber at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey there.
>
> I'm currently reviewing a child theme that includes fonts licensed under
> the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Looking over the GNU website, I can see that
> this license isn't 100% GPL-compatible:
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
>
> The parent theme has the same fonts as the child and is in the WP.org
> repository already.
>
> The GNU site does state the following, which, along with the parent theme
> already being accepted, made me second guess whether this license was
> allowed: "Neither we nor SIL recommend the use of this license for anything
> other than fonts."
>
> Is this a case where something slipped through or do we allow themes that
> have this license for fonts only?
>
> Thanks in advance for helping to clear this up!
>
> Siobhan
>
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