Fluent Emoji: Microsoft's open source emoji library (andrew.masto.host)

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Fluent Emoji: Microsoft's open source emoji library

https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-emoji

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[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 15 points 7 months ago

Looks pretty nice honestly, and MIT license is cool.

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 26 points 7 months ago

Reminder that Microsoft uses the MIT license because it lets them do separate proprietary releases. They do this with vscode and release proprietary extensions that only work with the proprietary version of vscode, like pylance.

It's not all bad, but just be aware this is what they do.

[-] Markaos@lemmy.one 6 points 7 months ago

I kinda doubt there's going to be any outside contributions to this project, so any non-exclusive license would allow MS to rerelease this under a proprietary license - even the GPL. They own the copyright, so they can release it under as many licenses as they wish.

With software there's way lower barrier to entry and way higher chance of having the patches accepted. With art... Good luck convincing MS that your version of the emoji is worth the hassle of losing the ability to just change the license at any moment.