{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/trufont/trufont/issues/88","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/trufont/trufont/issues/88/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/trufont/trufont/issues/88/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/trufont/trufont/issues/88/events","html_url":"https://github.com/trufont/trufont/issues/88","id":113653959,"number":88,"title":"Licensing madness :-P","user":{"login":"felipesanches","id":213676,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/213676?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/felipesanches","html_url":"https://github.com/felipesanches","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/felipesanches/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/felipesanches/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/felipesanches/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/felipesanches/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/felipesanches/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/felipesanches/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/felipesanches/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/felipesanches/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/felipesanches/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/trufont/trufont/labels/packaging","name":"packaging","color":"0052cc"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":11,"created_at":"2015-10-27T18:42:31Z","updated_at":"2015-10-29T09:05:41Z","closed_at":null,"body":"We have a file called SIL.txt with the following confusing header:\r\n\r\n```\r\ncursor.svg, curve.svg and ruler.svg are licensed under the following terms:\r\n\r\nCopyright (c) 2014, Austin Andrews (http://materialdesignicons.com/),\r\nwith Reserved Font Name Material Design Icons.\r\nCopyright (c) 2014, Google (http://www.google.com/design/)\r\nuses the license at https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/blob/master/LICENSE\r\n\r\nThis Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.\r\nThis license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:\r\nhttp://scripts.sil.org/OFL\r\n```\r\n\r\nThen it has a copy of the text of the SIL licensing terms.\r\n\r\nThis is confusing because:\r\n\r\n* the license referenced by https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/blob/master/LICENSE is actually not SIL, but CC-BY instead.\r\n* the header mentions both a person and Google. So I assume that this person is the author, who probably works for Google, and then the copyright belongs to Google. But maybe it can also mean that this person made a derivative of a work originally provided by Google (or vice-versa).\r\n* when it says \"This Font Software\" it is not clear what it is refering to. I understand that fonts can be considered to be equivalent to software for licensing purposes, but the files we're dealing with here are neighter software nor a font. These are SVG files (i.e. vector graphics). I would use different wording here to avoid confusion. Maybe I would say \"these graphics assets\" instead of \"this font software\".\r\n* additionaly, the \"font software\" wording can lead to a misunderstanding, given that this repository actually hosts a font editor application called TruFont and we don't want to make people mistalenly think that its source code is licensed under SIL :-)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/trufont/trufont/issues/comments/152118905","html_url":"https://github.com/trufont/trufont/issues/88#issuecomment-152118905","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/trufont/trufont/issues/88","id":152118905,"user":{"login":"pathumego","id":6846609,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6846609?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/pathumego","html_url":"https://github.com/pathumego","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pathumego/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pathumego/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pathumego/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pathumego/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pathumego/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pathumego/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pathumego/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pathumego/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/pathumego/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-29T09:05:41Z","updated_at":"2015-10-29T09:05:41Z","body":"Yeah I meant we use it if licensing is clear. How about using icons from\nnoun project?\n\nOn Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 8:16 AM Dave Crossland <notifications@github.com>\nwrote:\n\n> https://github.com/Templarian/MaterialDesign makes sense i guess, given\n> that licensing is clear.\n>\n> Sadly isn't though, so I can't recommend using that project.\n> Templarian/MaterialDesign#779\n> <https://github.com/Templarian/MaterialDesign/issues/779>\n>\n> —\n> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub\n> <https://github.com/trufont/trufont/issues/88#issuecomment-152109058>.\n>\n"}}