Licensing

[Khivar]

@arturmiz Hello, thanks for vuent, it is awesome ! I want to use it on my website and saw that it is MIT licensed and i have a few questions about it, didn't really know how to contact you and didn't want to pollute your repository by creating an issue for this so I forked the repository, created an issue on it and tagged you. First, on the Microsoft Fluent repository (https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui) we can read :

All files on the Fluent UI React GitHub repository are subject to the MIT license. Please read the License file at the root of the project.

Usage of the fonts and icons referenced in Fluent UI React is subject to the terms of the assets license agreement .

In the assets license, which is not MIT, it states that the assets can only be used by applications / websites related to Microsoft products / services or in connection with the use of a Microsoft API. The assets are defined as :

• Segoe font
• Microsoft Office icons
• Microsoft Fabric icons

Vuent seems to use Segoe UI font if available but i couldn't find it in the repository so I think that it's okay. It doesn't seem to use Microsoft Office icons either. However some of the icons in Vuent seem identical to fabric icons, like tag, save, edit and so on. How can Vuent still be MIT licensed and not collide with the assets license ? Thanks !

[arturmiz]

Hi @Khivar

To generate the SVGs for the Icon component, I have used Windows built-in font, not the one from Fluent UI React, so to be honest it's a tricky question. I cannot guarantee this is valid with Microsoft's point of view. The Vuent codebase itself is MIT so as such it's free to use but I don't take responsibility for the Icons case if such would occur in the future.

If you have doubts you can fork the Vuent repo and change Icons to your own implementation.

[Khivar]

Hello @arturmiz thanks a lot for answering and the icons details, I'll probably do that to be sure !