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Symbola has a non-free license #283

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CyberTailor opened this issue May 22, 2021 · 3 comments
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Symbola has a non-free license #283

CyberTailor opened this issue May 22, 2021 · 3 comments
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It restricts commercial use (so it fails FSF and OSI criteria).

=> https://dn-works.com/ufas/

Unifont looks like abomination but covers all unicode characters and is licensed under OFL.

=> http://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
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skyjake commented May 23, 2021

Yes, this mistake should be rectified.

This ties into the previous font packaging issues like #195 and #273. One option is to distribute the fonts as a separate package, under a separate license, but even so I don't think Symbola can be included due to its license.

I'll look around for more OFL fonts... I can always mix and match characters from different fonts, if necessary.

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skyjake added a commit that referenced this issue May 25, 2021
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Removed Symbola, replaced with other/new fonts
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Symbola's license is not permissive enough, so it has been removed. Added "Smol Emoji" with face emoticons and other UI characters for Lagrange. More symbols provided by Noto Sans Symbols and Noto Sans Symbols 2.

The fallback fonts are now Iosevka, which has a pretty good coverage (although monospace), and the user's chosen TrueType font (which could still be a local copy of Symbola).

Still a work in progress: some characters are missing.

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skyjake added a commit that referenced this issue May 27, 2021
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Added OFL license for Smol Emoji
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Why not put Symbola in the Font Library, with a note about the license forbidding business and school usage? It still works well as a fallback for emoji's that Smol Emoji doesn't have yet (I tried OpenMoji-Black too, but it was rendered tiny).

P.S. I finished the Dutch translation!

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skyjake commented Dec 22, 2021

Unfortunately, Symbola's license prohibits me from doing that:

USER ... may not ... in any way redistribute UFAS, with or without change

P.S. I finished the Dutch translation!

Great! I'll be included in the next update. 👍

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