{"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":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-10-27T18:42:31Z","updated_at":"2015-10-27T19:12:40Z","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/151614079","html_url":"https://github.com/trufont/trufont/issues/88#issuecomment-151614079","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/trufont/trufont/issues/88","id":151614079,"user":{"login":"n7s","id":4881499,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4881499?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/n7s","html_url":"https://github.com/n7s","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/n7s/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/n7s/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/n7s/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/n7s/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/n7s/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/n7s/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/n7s/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/n7s/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/n7s/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-27T19:12:40Z","updated_at":"2015-10-27T19:12:40Z","body":"BTW, I think what you really mean is OFL (SIL is the name of the organisation and it produces various pieces of software under many different licenses).  You are right, part of this is under CC-BY but a few - the community icons - are apparently also under OFL: https://github.com/Templarian/MaterialDesign  \r\n\r\nDo you need this extra set? \r\nWorth asking upstream if they are willing to adjust their terms. \r\n\r\nIMHO icons \"fonts\" (really just SVG with no smarts) should really be under a simpler license. "}}