[Qgis-user] Font Awesome symbols in QGIS

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi Régis,
The SVGs are only 853kB compressed (1.15MB uncompressed (6.30MB on 
disk)), so size shouldn't be a problem.

License: Honestly I stopped worrying about licenses year ago; I've 
already wasted enough of my life dealing with licensing. :-) The Pro 
version includes several thousand extra icons and isn't GPL friendly, so 
I'm just proposing using the free ones. The license for the free ones is 
as linked 
(https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/LICENSE.txt) - 
I just take it at its word that it's "GPL friendly". But this is the 
pertinent line: "In the Font Awesome Free download, the CC BY 4.0 
license applies to all icons packaged as SVG"

Cheers,
Jonathan


On 2020-07-26 08:57, Régis Haubourg wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> I see paying plans and a free plan for private or non profit uses. 
> Given that QGIS is used for any kind of work, I don't think embeding 
> their SVG is covered by the available plans. That would break their 
> economic model wouldn't it?
> Maybe you can contact them to see if this is possible?
>
> Another issue to be taken into account is that the package size for 
> Windows has already reached the limits of the NSIS installer because 
> of the proj-data grids. That means we need to provide a different way 
> to install those additional resources. Resource sharing plugin does it 
> nicely I think but is not enough advertised. Let's spread the word 
> about it!
>
> Best regards
> Régis
>
> Le sam. 25 juil. 2020 à 22:12, Jonathan Moules 
> <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com <mailto:jonathan-lists at lightpear.com>> a 
> écrit :
>
>     Hi List,
>
>     Following from the discussion about ESRI Fonts on the OSGeo list,
>     I got
>     to wondering... could QGIS include the Font Awesome symbols -
>     https://fontawesome.com/icons ?
>
>     It's not actually a font but a huge set of SVG's - 1,150 in fact
>     (excludes the "brand" icons, which QGIS wouldn't want), most of which
>     are pertinent to mapping.
>
>     The License is "GPL friendly" -
>     https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/LICENSE.txt.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Jonathan
>
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