[theme-reviewers] SIL Open Font License

[Emil Uzelac]

There you have it, thank you Justin! Pretty much what Drupal did as well.
Awesome :)

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>
wrote:

> 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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