Material-design-icons: How to give proper attribution?
There should be a part in the readme.md stating how to give attribution.
What's the NAME to give attribution to?
"using material-design-icons"?
"using google/material-design-icons"?
"uses Material Design icons by Google"?
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MarcusWolschon
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To the best of my knowledge, we should be fine with the very last of these. @jestelle I think for the next release we should update the README to include more details on attribution as these questions come up semi-regularly. Sound worthwhile?
addyosmani
on 4 Mar 2015
I would also like to know where we need to put the attribution. In the homepage? source? every page?
tryagains
on 13 Mar 2015
Why should we give it? It's an official icon set by Google (or am I wrong?). By providing it Google encourages us to implement material design in our applications. Google also provides us with Android API, Google Play Services, Android Studio and tons of other stuff that helps us create and promote Android applications. Should we give attribution to all that also?
andreynovikov
on 13 Mar 2015
@andreynovikov Simply because of the license. We're required to. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
schildbach
on 13 Mar 2015
We would generally like attribution to be user-visible (i.e., not hidden in code / view-source), however we don't expect attribution to be anywhere prominent.
Many Android apps include a section within their Help / About section that list open source licenses used by their project. Something akin to that is fine.
jestelle
on 16 Apr 2015
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We would generally like attribution to be user-visible (i.e., not hidden in code / view-source), however we don't expect attribution to be anywhere prominent.
Many Android apps include a section within their Help / About section that list open source licenses used by their project. Something akin to that is fine.