On 07/10/16 09:25, Gary wrote:
On 06/10/16 18:54, Dammina Sahabandu wrote:
Hi Gary,
Thank you for the positive feedback :) And I agree with mentioning
the library in the NOTICE file. As we do not maintain a
THIRD_PARTY_LICENSE file, legally that would be enough AFAIK. However
I'm not exactly clear about the role of .rat-ignore file. Is it the
configuration file for defining files to be ignored when running the
Apache Rat tool?
Thanks,
Dammina
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Gary <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 03/10/16 19:46, Dammina Sahabandu wrote:
Hi Devs,
To provide a better user experience I propose to use icons
from Font
Awesome icon library [1]. At the moment Apache Bloodhound
utilize the
limited set of icons provided by Bootstrap glyphicons. However
Font Awesome
provide a wider range of icons that we can effectively utilize
and make the
UI better.
Font Awesome library is licensed under MIT license [2].
Therefore I don't
think there are any legal barriers. And I hope it will be a
cool UX
improvement for the next release of the project. Please share
your view on
this.
[1] http://fontawesome.io/icons/ <http://fontawesome.io/>
[2] http://fontawesome.io/license/
Thanks,
Dammina
Sounds good to me - obviously the normal things apply about
ensuring that we acknowledge in appropriate places (the NOTICE
file I believe) that this component is included and under which
license. There may also be changes required in the .rat-ignore
file but we can work that out later.
Cheers,
Gary
Yes, that is right. There is no particular need to worry about it
immediately though. I'll check at some point if the automated build to
check licenses is actually running.
Cheers,
Gary
Looking again at their licensing, it is probably also worth checking the
compatibility of the font license - http://scripts.sil.org/OFL - as I
think that might be the way that the icons are delivered rather than
from an image. To be fair, I did not look that hard so I could easily be
wrong and there is a fair chance that it will be fine.
Cheers,
Gary
