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Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design

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Re: Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design

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"If you use Batch in a Dribbble shot, the inclusion of a “Batch” tag would be appreciated so that I can keep a curated bucket." I'm far, far too old to understand this, any clues?

From Dribbble's About page: Dribbble is show and tell for designers, who share shots — small screenshots of the designs and applications they’re working on.

So, pretty much, he wants people to tag their entries with "Batch" when they use icons from the linked set.

Re: Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design

#45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spot on.

@davidw - that is meant to refer to not selling or redistributing the icon pack as a whole - you are more than welcome to use it in any open source redistributed work.

I think that requirement would conflict with some open source licenses -- they typically grant the right to redistribute and modify the source code in any way.

That would include stripping out everything but the icons and selling them.

So if the license requires all accompanying code/assets to be under similar licenses, that could prevent use of your icons. I think that's the case under the GPL? Not really sure anymore.

e: After doing a bit more reading, I believe I was wrong. As long as the icons aren't somehow compiled into the binary, there are no license problems.

Re: Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design

#46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that means you can use them in commercial applications, but you aren't allowed to sell the icons themselves.

Spot on.

It might be better to use a more standard license, maybe Apache or BSD with an extra clause prohibiting "sale in whole apart from use in a larger software distribution." IANAL but it might hold up better and be less confusing.

Otherwise, obviously really great work and very generous. Thanks.

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