License of “Apple Color Emoji.ttf”
OS X Lion
苹果公司的彼得·埃德伯格(Peter Edberg)在这篇文章中说:
As previously stated, Apple would like to make the Apple Emoji font -
and the glyphs therefrom - widely available using a license that makes
it possible for anyone to change it as they see fit or to combine its
glyphs with those from another font, without Apple acquiring any
rights to such changes. The only conditions we want to impose are: a)
The name"Apple Emoji" can only be used for the original unmodified
font; if the font is modified or combined with another font, the
result must have a different name (without"Apple" in it). b) The
original font, or one derived from it or incorporating parts of it,
can not be sold as a stand-alone package. (However, it it could be
included as part of a system which is sold as a package). Otherwise a
third party should be free to use the font, or to adapt it, modify
it, extend it, distribute it, etc.
但是,在发布该文章时(2009年),Apple尚未确定实际许可。 我现在尝试查找,但是找不到更正式的许可声明。
[2014年3月12日更新:我现在已邮寄给埃德伯格先生,要求澄清。
埃德伯格先生回答了我(我的重点):
The font being considered for licensing as per the emoji4unicode posting [...] was not"Apple Color Emoji", which was never considered for licensing. Rather, it was a separate black & white"Apple Emoji" font mainly developed as part of the proposal to Unicode and ISO 10646 for the addition of emoji characters, in order to provide glyphs for use in the code charts etc. As far as I know it is not a font that ever been included in shipping Apple products.
因此,答案是没有可用的" Apple Color Emoji.ttf"许可证。
IANAL,顺便说一句。
2018年2月6日更新:根据Twitter的帖子,苹果现在已开始在App Store中强制执行此操作。 Sam Eckert在此报告:
I’ve just been on the phone with the App Review team regarding the Emoji issue. Apps are NO LONGER ALLOWED TO USE EMOJI in non-keyboard based situations. Means if your app displays emoji anywhere without a user having it typed in, it’s illegal and will be rejected.