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Re: SVGmix is a massive collection of free SVG icons and brand logos

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Post by hoistbypetard » Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 11:02 PM UTC

Serious problem with this collection: Many of their icons require attribution, and they do not offer enough detail about the licenses to credit the authors.

For example, this baseball icon:

https://svgmix.com/item/yBq8JY/ball-baseball

says that it is licensed under the "MIT License". That means that, if you embed the icon in a product, you're obligated to document the fact that the icon is copyrighted by its author and explain what license you used it under.

The link they offer for the license is this one: https://opensource.org/license/mit/

It just says "Copyright "... they don't offer you any way to identify the actual copyright holder and credit them according to the license they claim for the icon.

That's bad. To the point of making it nearly impossible to reuse these freely offered icons.

Re: SVGmix is a massive collection of free SVG icons and brand logos

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Post by ComputerGuru » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 12:19 AM UTC

CoUHKT57BSe wrote: post #14

ComputerGuru wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Noun Project has a $10/yr membership that lets you skip attribution (permanently, not just while you are a paying member).

Do you have a link or discount code or something for a $10/year sub? Looking on their site a yearly sub is $40 not 10.

Sorry; I posted with old info without checking if the situation had since changed.

Re: SVGmix is a massive collection of free SVG icons and brand logos

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Post by joshspankit » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 4:32 AM UTC

hoistbypetard wrote: post #21

Serious problem with this collection: Many of their icons require attribution, and they do not offer enough detail about the licenses to credit the authors. For example, this baseball icon: https://svgmix.com/item/yBq8JY/ball-baseball says that it is licensed under the "MIT License". That means that, if you embed the icon in a product, you're obligated to document the fact that the icon is copyrighted by its author a…

They also don’t seem to share the provenance of their icons and the “About us” page takes you to the icon list. Very concerning from a licensing perspective.