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iamcal / emoji-data

Easy to parse data and spritesheets for emoji
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Missing emojis are rendered using Apple's (?) images #162

Closed Rohansi closed 4 years ago

Rohansi commented 4 years ago

Some missing emoji are rendered using a different set, such as the bagel and mango.

Here's a screenshot of the Google set (32px). These are clearly not from Google's font because the style is very different. image

This can be a problem with licensing because those images are more restricted from use than the other Google ones, for example if being used in a commercial product.

iamcal commented 4 years ago

If you need to build the sheets without fallback images for missing code points (all the different sets are missing some combination of images), then you can modify the following line in build/build_image.php and rebuilt your sheets: https://github.com/iamcal/emoji-data/blob/da7eb2a5ecc7da5e70e40cbd5d20a75d879c67af/build/build_image.php#L62

Rohansi commented 4 years ago

If that is the case then you should add a warning message to this section of the README stating that the files included in the repo are not safe to use, and that you should build it yourself with the sets you are legally allowed to use.

https://github.com/iamcal/emoji-data#image-sources

It's very misleading providing image sets labelled as "google" and "twitter", stating that they allow commercial usage, but including Apple's images in those sets means they do not allow commercial usage.

iamcal commented 4 years ago

This is a great point - i'm addressing it in #166

iamcal commented 4 years ago

v5.0.1 provides the 'clean' sheets and updates the docs to make this more clear