Switch Font Awesome from 4 to 6

[ikedas]

Expected Behavior

Font Awesome should be up-to-date, i.e. 6.4.x.

Current Behavior

Font Awesome bundled in Sympa is outdated, i.e. 4.3.0.

Possible Solution

Upgrade Font Awesome: See also the instruction.

[racke]

I looked up the status of the Debian package, which says:

Please note that this package provides Font Awesome 4 (not Font Awesome 5 or Font Awesome 6 which are different fonts with different licensing).

What is the difference between these releases?

There is also the fork of Font Awesome, which was created because of the licensing situation (if I remember correctly).

[ikedas]

I looked up the status of the Debian package, which says:

Please note that this package provides Font Awesome 4 (not Font Awesome 5 or Font Awesome 6 which are different fonts with different licensing).

What is the difference between these releases?

Icon names changed after FA4. So we have to modify templates.

Abolut the license, it seems for me that FA4 and FA6 Free differ in some details but basically they keep the free/open source license. Am I right?

There is also the fork of Font Awesome, which was created because of the licensing situation (if I remember correctly).

I just learned about Fork Awesome. I don't see where the ForkA license improves things. At least this can be a drop-in replacement for FA4 which has already reached EOL.

	Font Awesome 4.3.0	Fork Awesome 1.2.0	Font Awesome 6.4.0 Free
total size (TTF)	93 888	219 004	655 960
number of font files	1	1	4
number of icons	560	796	2 020
compatible to FA4	-	yes	no

[ikedas]

These are all icons currently used by Sympa.

There appears to be a slight design change (Especially noticeable in 6, 22, 37, 38, etc.).

Font Awesome 4.3.0	Font Awesome 6.4.0 Free (red: name changed)

[ikedas]

Please check the PR above. Thanks!

[ikedas]

PR above was applied to lists.sympa.community.

[ikedas]

Ready.