[theme-reviewers] SIL Open Font License

[Justin Tadlock]

Matt and Joseph Scott approved this a few years ago when the question first
came up.  Reference:
http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2010-June/000513.html

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> 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>
> 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> 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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>> Tammie Lister
>>
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