microsoft/fluentui-emoji

Wrong licence

Aaron-Junker opened this issue · 6 comments

Aaron-Junker commented

Hi

Making these emojis open source is imo great!

But you put this Repo under the MIT license (which is also in the Microsoft repo template).

The problem with this is that the MIT license is for Software and its associated documentation. This repository does not contain any of these two things.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be the wrong license for this repository.

Cc: @jasoncuster @spencer-nelson @emmairwin

DioEgizio commented

afaik mit is good for anything

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davelab6 commented

Since emoji are unicode characters, I think a font with the sil open font license would be better

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rsheeter commented

Can a font built from MIT assets be OFL, akin to how Noto (https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji#license) has Apache 2 assets and an OFL font?

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rettinghaus commented

Considering the graphics artworks a CC license may be best.

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hkienle commented

Considering the graphics artworks a CC license may be best.

At least, a CC license should be added as well (resulting in a dual-licensing scheme).

hkienle commented

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be the wrong license for this repository.

This issue may be more complicated. For instance, there are SVG files, which can be considered (declarative) code IMHO...