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Licensing

Source: vignettes/licensing.Rmd
licensing.Rmd

Every icon set on Iconify has its own license. Using an icon means following that license. This page shows how to look it up. It is not legal advice.

Look up a license 

lic <- iconify_license("fa6-solid")
#> ! "Font Awesome 6 Solid" ("fa6-solid") is licensed "CC BY 4.0": attribution is required. Credit "Dave Gandy".
lic
#> Font Awesome 6 Solid (fa6-solid)
#>   License:              CC BY 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)
#>   License URL:          https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
#>   Author:               Dave Gandy
#>   Author URL:           https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
#>   Attribution required: yes

iconify_license() accepts a set prefix or a full icon id. When the license requires attribution (Creative Commons Attribution licenses such as CC BY 4.0, and ODbL), it also prints a message. Silence it with quiet = TRUE.

The result is a list, so you can build a credit line from it:

sprintf("Icons: %s by %s (%s), %s", lic$set, lic$author, lic$url, lic$license)
#> [1] "Icons: Font Awesome 6 Solid by Dave Gandy (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), CC BY 4.0"

Audit all sets

iconify_sets() has the license of every set, so you can filter before you pick one:

sets <- iconify_sets()
table(sets$license_spdx, useNA = "ifany")[1:8]
#> 
#>      Apache-2.0    BSD-3-Clause       CC-BY-3.0       CC-BY-4.0    CC-BY-NC-4.0 
#>              31               1               1              52               1 
#> CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0    CC-BY-SA-3.0    CC-BY-SA-4.0 
#>               1               2               7
head(sets[grepl("^(MIT|Apache)", sets$license_spdx), c("prefix", "name", "license_spdx")])
#>                   prefix                   name license_spdx
#> 1       material-symbols       Material Symbols   Apache-2.0
#> 2 material-symbols-light Material Symbols Light   Apache-2.0
#> 3                     ic  Google Material Icons   Apache-2.0
#> 4                    mdi  Material Design Icons   Apache-2.0
#> 6                line-md    Material Line Icons          MIT
#> 8                 tabler           Tabler Icons          MIT

What the attribution flag covers

  • attribution_required is TRUE for SPDX ids starting with CC-BY (this includes CC-BY-SA and CC-BY-NC) and for ODbL.
  • MIT, Apache-2.0 and BSD sets don’t require visible credit, but they require you to keep the license notice when you redistribute the icons.
  • Sets with no license data return NA. Check the set’s source.
  • Non-commercial and share-alike licenses carry extra conditions beyond attribution. Read the license URL.