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myxvisual
Font license issue
Excerpt from the Segoe MDL2 icons article https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/uwp/style/segoe-ui-symbol-font
How do I get this font? To obtain Segoe MDL2 Assets, you must install Windows 10.
And as stated in microsoft typography faq https://www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq11.htm
What can I do with the fonts supplied with Microsoft products? The fonts are governed by the same restrictions as the products they are supplied with. You are not allowed to copy, redistribute or reverse engineer the font files. For full details see the license agreement supplied with the product.
That is: Segoe MDL2 font is not suited for MIT-licensed project or any other project at all because it can't be shipped with it
I'm looking forward to your response about this issue because i really like this project, but these issues can get users into some troubles
With WinJS, they had to fallback to a font package that was similar to but still different from MDL2.
https://github.com/winjs/winjs/tree/master/src/fonts
Some of those icons are kind of ugly though so an alternative to this alternative would be nice...
Found a decent alternative: https://github.com/icons8/windows-10-icons
This one is free and has very limited set of icons. You can get more with paid version, but still - it is better than being sued
@Saurer @limefrogyank thanks for attention, on the issue of font license agreement, I hope I can redesign a set of icon font, but it will take time.
@myxvisual Is it possible to modify orionLibrary's icon and makes it fit the need of this Lib? It may reduce much work. https://orioniconlibrary.com/
@myxvisual Is the redesign get started? I drew some icons to kill my weekend recently, maybe we can create a repo to work together?
my repo: https://github.com/Losses/fds-community-icons
Intel's Clear Sans seems good. https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/clear-sans
Any update on this licensing issue? Unless changed, I believe everything developed using this package will be a subject of a copyright infringement due to inclusion of this folder which I guess is always included?
