[theme-reviewers] SIL Open Font License

[Tammie Lister]

Yes, I'm a bit confused to. It really does appear to not be compatible 
which worries me if it isn't. We can fix, but we need to be sure. This 
is why I suggested from IRC Siobhan post here. Licenses are hard :)

Thanks
Tammie

On 08/10/2014 20:47, Siobhan Bamber 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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Tammie Lister

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