Bug#835197: RFP: fonts-eosrei-emojione
Control: retitle -1 RFP: fonts-emojitwo -- Color emoji font originally
released as Emojione 2.2
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> It appears like Emojione is no longer under a DFSG-compatible license.
Updating the bug title, since I'm skeptical that even non-free could
provide the latest Emojione.
> By the way, my understanding is that the new GNOME color emoji feature
> requires these:
All of that is done now in Debian Testing except for fontconfig 2.12.6
(soon I hope). Also fonts-noto-color-emoji is in the NEW queue.
Mike, I wonder why Mozilla standardized on the Emojione font. Given
Emojione's license shift and the fact that it appears like Linux
distros prefer the Noto emoji, do you think Mozilla would reconsider?
(Fedora 27 includes the Noto emoji by default. I expect Ubuntu 18.04
LTS to include fonts-noto-color-emoji by default. Probably Debian
GNOME Buster too. It is the same emoji used by Google in the latest
stock Android devices.)
If I understand
https://github.com/EmojiTwo/emojitwo/blob/master/Gruntfile.js#L404
correctly, we'll need to package a lot more node/grunt libraries to
build emojitwo from source.
Ubuntu does have a package for fonts-emojione (from before the license
change). (It technically doesn't build the font from source either but
uses a pre-compiled .ttf).
Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha
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