Add discussion of the license on OpenMoji

andybalaam/emoji-verification-images
Andy Balaam 3 months ago
parent edc2c86f22
commit 1091375350

@ -109,6 +109,20 @@ proper attribution, which should be added to the spec text.
applications. I consider this aesthetic disruption worth it if it makes the
verification process easier to use.
* My understanding of the
[CC BY-SA 4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) ("You
must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, ... If you remix,
transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions
under the same license as the original") is that both the Matrix foundation
and client developers are allowed to distribute these images unmodified so
long as they give attribution, even if they are distributed within a
proprietary application or one under another license. However, I am not a
lawyer, and the foundation would need to satisfy itself as to the situation
here, or obtain some alternative set of images. (It is even possible the <=64
original authors of the relevant images on OpenMojo might grant permission for
use under a more permissive license if needed.) It would seem polite to
contact OpenMojo either way before incorporating this change into the spec.
## Alternatives
* We could miss out the image URLs in `sas-emoji.json` and expect client

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