Determine origin and usage of icons included in project

cc-archive / vocabulary-legacy

A cohesive design system & Vue component library to unify the web-facing Creative Commons

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Determine origin and usage of icons included in project #1051

Closed brylie closed 2 years ago

brylie commented 2 years ago

Problem

There are several icons included in the src/assets/icons/ directory from an unknown origin. In order to give proper attribution, we should determine the source of the icons as well as their license terms.

Task

[x] locate the originating project for non-CC icons located in src/assets/icons
[x] determine license terms for the icons
[x] determine how to include the icons in downstream projects
[ ] identify any downstream Creative Commons projects that use the non-CC licenses, such as Chooser

MuluhGodson commented 2 years ago

@brylie

- locate the originating project for non-CC icons located in src/assets/icons

These icons are gotten from Font Awesome. It is referenced in this commit made on Jul 18 2021 by @dhruvkb in the file src/stories/vocabulary_svg_icons.stories.mdx

- determine license terms for the icons

Font Awesome's free license for their SVG icons is our CC BY 4.0 license. Referenced here Font Awesome Free Licenses

brylie commented 2 years ago

Would it be feasible to directly link to the Font Awesome icons rather than include them in our source code?

MuluhGodson commented 2 years ago

yeah, I think that will work better for our use case. We aren't altering the icons in any way so importing FA and using the icons normally will be better, and also reduce file size.

brylie commented 2 years ago

I opened a related issue in the Chooser project: https://github.com/creativecommons/chooser/issues/378

brylie commented 2 years ago

Closing this since we identified FontAwesome as the icon source.