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10 open source SVG icon libraries that you can use for your next project

Zoltán Szőgyényi on April 30, 2020

Last week I started a thread on reddit asking fellow developers a simple question: which is your favourite icon library? The post quickly became po...

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Andrew • May 1 '20 • Edited

I don't know if it's open source, but iconmonstr has great free icons

Zoltán Szőgyényi • May 1 '20

It is not open source, you can only use it for personal websites for instance. Here's an example from their license agreement:

"Licensee may not sell, redistribute, sublicense, share or otherwise transfer the Work to other people
or entities."

Although their icons look great it's not open source :(

iconmonstr.com/license/

Andrew • May 1 '20

But the license also says

Licensee may use the Work in non-commercial and commercial projects, services or products without attribution.

I believe that means you can use them commercially, but you don't own them?

Zoltán Szőgyényi • May 1 '20 • Edited

If this is part of the license then it is not open source. It's just free under their license agreement. Most of the other icon libraries listed above are licensed under the MIT License which is the most permissive license.

Andrew • May 1 '20

Okay thanks for clarifying

Zoltán Szőgyényi • May 1 '20 • Edited

This basically means that you can not use these icons in a product that you will further sell, such as a website template in comparison with the other libraries listed above where you can do whatever your heart wishes :)