[theme-reviewers] SIL Open Font License

[Siobhan Bamber]

Ah! Thanks so much for the clarification and for being so quick to reply
back on this everyone. :)

Siobhan

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> 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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>>>> Tammie Lister
>>>>
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