SIL OFL licence[1] for the icons themselves.<p>This is exciting news! When GitHub originally announced Octicons, many people on HN[2] wished that they were open for general use rather than just for GitHub.<p>1: <a href="https://github.com/github/octicons/blob/master/LICENSE.txt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/github/octicons/blob/master/LICENSE.txt</a>
2: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3949489" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3949489</a>
Want them as PNG?<p>Step 1: Download SVG from <a href="https://github.com/github/octicons/tree/master/svg" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/github/octicons/tree/master/svg</a><p>Step 2: Use <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/convert/image/svg2raster.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fileformat.info/convert/image/svg2raster.htm</a><p>Step 3: ...<p>Step 4: Profit!
They don't mention this on the page, but this is an icon font (like FontAwesome). The zip includes CSS/SCSS referencing the ttf, svg, woff and eot files.<p>Released under MIT + Open Font License
A list of the icons sorted by their names:<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/anonymous/0bd2c6fb5e42bfb5cacc" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/anonymous/0bd2c6fb5e42bfb5cacc</a>
damn I thought it said 'GitHub Octocoins'<p>BEEN SMOKIN TOO MUCH BITCOINS<p>On a more related note, how do you people feel about the 'ordered list' icon having more lines than numbers, and the 'podium' icon looking like a drinking fountain?