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Is it possible just to treat Emojis just like we treat regular typeface fonts? Is there something preventing me from downloading Apple's Emoji "font" and settin

Is it possible just to treat Emojis just like we treat regular typeface fonts? Is there something preventing me from downloading Apple's Emoji "font" and setting it as the default on my Android device? This would allow developers to specify their own preferred sets (and allow users to override).

marcuskaz 12y ago
Copyright law. Apple's Emoji font is not under an open license for you to copy and redistribute. The only two emoji sets that I know that are under an open license are now Twitter and EmojiOne
- surreal 12y ago
  Do WhatsApp license Apple's emoji? They've been in WhatsApp's Android app for years.
- chimeracoder 12y ago
  Debian releases ttf-symbola (as part of ttf-ancient-fonts), so I imagine that has to be free as well, given Debian's policies.
  - bmn_ 12y ago
    http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Symbola font distribution terms: "In lieu of a licence - Fonts in this site are offered free for any use; they may be installed, embedded, opened, edited, modified, regenerated, posted, packaged and redistributed."
- yincrash 12y ago
  AndroidEmoji.ttf is Apache 2 just like the rest of the Android source. Here's fedora's page[1] that links straight to the Android JB source folder of fonts. [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Google_AndroidEmoji_fonts https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Google_AndroidEmoji_fonts