[theme-reviewers] SIL Open Font License

[Emil Uzelac]

See my update please.

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Siobhan Bamber <siobhanbamber at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Really? I'm confused about why this site say otherwise in that case. :/
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
>
> It's listed next to the "Free license, incompatible with the GNU GPL and
> FDL" colour code. Can you let me know where I can find more information on
> this?
>
> Siobhan
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>
>> 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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