Yeah, the lack of licensing info here is a bit of a deal-breaker.

It uses the term "open source icons," but given how over-used/abused that terminology is these days, it doesn't really mean much to me.

I don't see any license info in the downloaded SVG files either, from spot checking.

Ah, thanks for that.

For those reading: after you select a collection, there is a small "i" icon at the top of the screen, near the search bar. Clicking it gives a link to the source and license info!

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Though as others have mentioned: beware that there is still obviously-trademarked stuff in there; check the source to be sure. If you're looking at a specific icon, there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to get back to the collection it came from (and thus see the original license terms).

The availability of trademarked icons (such as Google and Amazon, linked by others) makes me think they just crawled for SVG icons and slapped an OFL on them, which you can't do.

This one probably isn't open source and will have some trademark issues. https://iconbuddy.app/bxl/amazon

Are you not supposed to use an Amazon logo for a link to Amazon?

For the logo linked above, almost certainly not. See e.g. https://advertising.amazon.com/resources/ad-policy/brand-usa... :

> The Amazon logo and the Amazon Smile mark are not permitted in third-party advertising by vendors and sellers linking in to Amazon. The “available at Amazon” logo is permitted for use in advertising.

Here's the "available at Amazon" logo: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/AdProductsWebsite/ima...

The main smile logo variants are also permitted for use in "logo line ups", "in a line up with two or more other retailers and not linking in to Amazon."

Most other uses are either not permitted, or subject to conditions, which sometimes involve obtaining written permission from Amazon.

That's just an example, other Amazon logos for other product areas - e.g. their app store - have similar conditions.

There may be some fair use exceptions to all this if used in a context that doesn't involve selling products.

Not a lawyer, but surely something can be both open source and trademarked? As far as I understand those are unrelated concepts. In this context, the “source” is the SVG markup.

The issue is how you use it. Whether the icon SVG markup is open source isn't very relevant if you're not allowed to use it. If you want to personally mess around with it and not use it in any commercial context, no-one is going to care.

I guess they crawled all icons from github projects and did not check every icon... I would also double check the license with the source before using it.

You can click on the info icon beside the collection name, with the license details and GitHub repo/figma file and details about the author/designer

I can't seem to find what you're talking about when doing "search all".

There is a "Search all" button on the top-left, which allows to search icons across all collections.

This feature's results page lists icons without mentioning from which collection they are, so therefore without providing the licensing information...

^ irrelevant, I just realized I misunderstood parent comment when replying this.

I clicked on All Collections, searched for an icon and found a few, but then I wanted to view other icons in it's collection. I don't see a way to do that, or even figure out that icon's source. Also, the "Search Icons" box is cleared when I move between collections. No (obvious?) way to sort the collections by the number of icons.

It also needs a section on the main page explaining the licensing and sources of the icons. I left the page immediately when I couldn't find it.

Or at least source. Without this it is useless.

It may be technically open source, but without any benefits.

See say https://iconbuddy.app/bxl/amazon https://iconbuddy.app/devicon/google for obvious problems that I can spot. How many are from more obscure services?

How many are CC-BY or requiring attribution? How many are from some license-washing dubious source stealing icons and claiming to be CC0 licensed?