Bug: SVG code of free icons on fontawesome.com includes Pro license

[tnir]

Bug description

"Copy SVG code" feature from https://fontawesome.com/icons/magnifying-glass?s=solid (Font Awesome 6.1.3) gives us the code with Pro license as below while the icon has been included since 1.0.0 (formerly known as search in version 5) and (as far as I understand correctly) is Free in Font Awesome 6.

<!--! Font Awesome Pro 6.1.1 by @fontawesome - https://fontawesome.com License - https://fontawesome.com/license (Commercial License) Copyright 2022 Fonticons, Inc. -->

The full code copied from the page

Current behavior

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512"><!--! Font Awesome Pro 6.1.1 by @fontawesome - https://fontawesome.com License - https://fontawesome.com/license (Commercial License) Copyright 2022 Fonticons, Inc. --><path d="M500.3 443.7l-119.7-119.7c27.22-40.41 40.65-90.9 33.46-144.7C401.8 87.79 326.8 13.32 235.2 1.723C99.01-15.51-15.51 99.01 1.724 235.2c11.6 91.64 86.08 166.7 177.6 178.9c53.8 7.189 104.3-6.236 144.7-33.46l119.7 119.7c15.62 15.62 40.95 15.62 56.57 0C515.9 484.7 515.9 459.3 500.3 443.7zM79.1 208c0-70.58 57.42-128 128-128s128 57.42 128 128c0 70.58-57.42 128-128 128S79.1 278.6 79.1 208z"/></svg>

Expected behavior

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512"><!--! Font Awesome Free 6.1.1 by @fontawesome - https://fontawesome.com License - https://fontawesome.com/license/free (Icons: CC BY 4.0, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT License) Copyright 2022 Fonticons, Inc. --><path d="M500.3 443.7l-119.7-119.7c27.22-40.41 40.65-90.9 33.46-144.7C401.8 87.79 326.8 13.32 235.2 1.723C99.01-15.51-15.51 99.01 1.724 235.2c11.6 91.64 86.08 166.7 177.6 178.9c53.8 7.189 104.3-6.236 144.7-33.46l119.7 119.7c15.62 15.62 40.95 15.62 56.57 0C515.9 484.7 515.9 459.3 500.3 443.7zM79.1 208c0-70.58 57.42-128 128-128s128 57.42 128 128c0 70.58-57.42 128-128 128S79.1 278.6 79.1 208z"/></svg>

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/6.x/js-packages/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/svgs/solid/magnifying-glass.svg

More resources

magnifying-glass classification in Font Awesome 6

• https://fontawesome.com/search?q=magnifying-glass&m=free
• https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/65f4bdb5025759ba25cd3432568de288b6a67527/js-packages/%40fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons/faMagnifyingGlass.js
  • shows magnifying-glass is included in free-solid-svg-icons
  • @fortawesome/fontawesome-free license: CC-BY-4.0 AND OFL-1.1 AND MIT according to https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/afecf2af5d897b763e5e8e28d46aad2f710ccad6/js-packages/%40fortawesome/fontawesome-free/package.json

Reproducible test case

https://fontawesome.com/icons/magnifying-glass?s=solid

Screenshots

n/a

Font Awesome version

v6.1.1

Serving

Other (as specified in the bug description)

Implementation

SVG Sprites

Browser and Operating System

Independent from browser and operating system

Web bug report checklist

• [X] I have included a test case because my odds go way up that the team can fix this when I do
• [X] I have searched for existing issues and to the best of my knowledge this is not a duplicate

[tagliala]

Hi!

Thanks for being part of the Font Awesome Community and thanks for reporting this.

This is happening for every icon as far as I can see

[tnir]

@tagliala Thanks. Yes, as you are pointing out, I guess this happens to every Free icon of 1900+ while I did not check it.

So I think you need to visit https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/b452a2c086a5e3f319df61b1ce1db7d8e1ad2b7c/js-packages/%40fortawesome/fontawesome-free/svgs/solid/magnifying-glass.svg to get a SVG code with the precise license, like I did.

[tagliala]

So I think you need to visit https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/b452a2c086a5e3f319df61b1ce1db7d8e1ad2b7c/js-packages/%40fortawesome/fontawesome-free/svgs/solid/magnifying-glass.svg to get a SVG code with the precise license, like I did.

Yes, please use this workaround in the meanwhile

There is also an /svgs folder in the main repo: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/6.1.1/svgs/solid/magnifying-glass.svg

[tnir]

Thank you! The location you showed was not easily found just with GitHub search. 😍

[kiriri]

The fact that this issue was not fixed within a week, let alone a year, seems outright malicious to me.

[sensibleworld]

This has been fixed.