[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16898: Fix plugins about page license requirement

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#16898: Fix plugins about page license requirement
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 Reporter:  scribu              |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |   Milestone:  WordPress.org
Component:  WordPress.org site  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                      |
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Comment (by Otto42):

 @KatePhiz: It's important that the user be aware of the fact that they are
 a) sending potentially tracked information back to the author of the
 plugin and b) adding a dependency into their site of another site. The
 user of the plugin must be made aware of these facts in advance.

 As long as the user is made aware of what's going on and has the chance to
 opt-out or not use the plugin if they disagree with the method of
 operation, then you can do pretty much whatever. The point, really, is
 full disclosure.

 For your specific case, instead of hotlinking images as you suggest, I'd
 write the plugin such that the user could select whatever glyphs/fonts
 they need to download from your site, and have the plugin then go get that
 image and save it where it was needed, then access it locally. This would
 prevent the need for insane hosting charges on your end, since presumably
 they'd only download the required images once, and it would give the user
 the option to choose what bits they need, and it would also easily explain
 to the user that they're downloading the needed images from wherever
 they're downloading them from.

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