Re: Batch icon set license

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>> > You are free to use Batch (the "icon set") or any part thereof (the
>> > "icons") in any personal, open-source or commercial work without
>> > obligation of payment (monetary or otherwise) or attribution. Do not
>> > sell the icon set, host the icon set or rent the icon set (either in
>> > existing or modified form).
> [...]
>> That is apparent *nonfree* licence, probably a homebrew one, so it
>> does not have any name.
>
> I'm saying this with no particular authority

Neither do I, of course.

> but it seems to me that the two conflicting statements

I’m afraid, I cannot see any conflicting statements here.  Do you mean that ‘commercial’ should be read as ‘sale’?   There are many pretty valid commercial activities that are possible with a piece of software besides selling or renting it to someone, and I cannot not a reason why a proprietor of a nonfree software might not wish to forbid only these two.

(And otherwise: does the word ‘sale’ by itself imply solely commercial basis in the USA?)

> are meant to do something similar to the SIL Open Font License —
> allow the content to be used as part of a work but to forbid its
> sale _as a thing in itself_.

It might be worth noting, that SIL OFL explicitly *allows* selling a font accompanied by another work:

| 2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
| redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
| contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
| included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
| in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
| binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.

> I'll leave it to legal to say whether they agree that that's the
> probably intent and whether it *works* like that.

If that is a homebrew licence, the best thing to do, I suppose, would be to request clarifications from authors of the icon set.  Thankfully, there are only couple of them, as I can see.
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