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Refactoring UI Icon License

Copyright (c) Refactoring UI Inc.

This License Agreement (“the Agreement”) between you, the licensee, and Refactoring UI Inc. (the “Company”), a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Ontario. The Company owns the icons (the “Product”) delivered under this Agreement. This Agreement grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use and incorporate the Product in personal and commercial projects.

You agree as follows:

  1. Scope of use

    1. Use and incorporate the Product in personal and commercial projects including web applications, websites, native mobile applications, and printed materials, etc.

    2. You may incorporate the Product in open-source projects, and are granted permission to include the Product in publicly readable repositorities as needed.

    3. You may modify the Product to better serve your projects.

    4. You are granted unlimited usage of the Product.

    5. If an organization is the licensee, all employees of the organization may use the same license.

  2. Limitations and non-use

    1. You may not redistribute, sublicense or resell the Product.

    2. You may not distribute, license or sell modified versions of the Product.

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

@franciscop
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Isn't the "Scope of use 2" literally contradicting the "Limitations and non-use 1"? Wouldn't an open source project redistributing and sublicensing (under the Open Source license) the Product?

@matt-goldman
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@franciscop I think there's a very different reading of those two points. One is incorporating, the other is redistributing. You can build a product, website, blog, book, etc that uses the one or more of the icons, but you can't just redestribute the icon pack in its entrity.

@Flimm
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Flimm commented Jul 11, 2022

Personally, I would hesitate to include one of these icons in an open source project. As far as I understand it, incorporating something does count as redistribution. An open source project which includes one of these icons is a modified version of the product, which clashes with 2.ii. . Even if this licence does permit including the icon in an open source project, I'm not sure that project could be considered open source any more, since parts of it wouldn't be open source. You would have to relicense the project to make sure the icons wouldn't be sold, etc.

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