300K+ Free SVG Icons, Collections, and Logos

Re:300K+ Free SVG Icons, Collections, and Logos by hoistbypetard on Sunday July 16, 2023 @07:02PM (#36752296)

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 <copyright holder>"... 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.

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Re:300K+ Free SVG Icons, Collections, and Logos by joshspankit on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:32AM (#36754154)

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.

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