GNU bug report logs - #44020
28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 18:12:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 44020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 44020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:30:41 +0100

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 12:38:18PM +0200, Robert Pluim wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:26:42 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> said:
> 
>     Eli> Also, Noto Color Emoji has a free license, so it's okay for it to be
>     Eli> in fontset.el, but it is not clear to me whether Apple Color Emoji is
>     Eli> distributed under a free license.
> 
> Itʼs marked 'Copyright Apple 2011-2016' in the macOS font
> selector. And Apple appear to be both sensitive and litigious about
> it, so probably best not to promote it.

On the other hand it comes preinstalled, it only works on Apple
devices, and Noto Color Emoji doesn't work on Apple devices. I'm not
sure we'd really be "promoting" it.

IIRC Windows comes with Segoe UI Emoji preinstalled too.
-- 
Alan Third
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