[theme-reviewers] SIL Open Font License

[Tammie Lister]

I second that, Siobhan whatever the outcome it's really cool to have 
someone checking on things like this. You rock!

Thanks
Tammie

On 08/10/2014 20:53, Emil Uzelac wrote:
> Siobhan, you did something pretty awesome today and thank you for 
> that. See we have this as compatible and majority of Google Fonts are 
> released under SIL, which means that any theme we approved will no 
> longer be able to use SIL. Again, I am now completely off and not sure 
> how is this possible, was it changed and why.
>
> We definitely need some clarifications.
>
> Let's leave the guideline as-is till we get to the bottom of this :)
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Tammie Lister <karmatosed at gmail.com 
> <mailto:karmatosed at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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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