Legal status of icon set

[Fauntleroy]

What is the legal status of the images used for these emoticons? Are these taken directly from iOS or are they from some other source? Are they GPL licensed?

[iamcal]

They are taken from here: http://bitcontrol.org/2009/10/18/emoji-rubygem-for-iphone-softbank-ntt-docomo-kddi/

I suspect they are ripped from iOS

[sriharigoud]

How to use a string contains \ud83d\ude8a \ud83d\ude89 \ud83d\ude9e \ud83d\ude86 \ud83d\ude84\ud83d\ude85\ud83d\ude88 \ud83d\ude87\ud83d\ude9d \ud83d\ude8b\ud83d\ude83 \ud83d\ude8e\ud83d\ude8c \ud83d\ude8d

[iamcal]

Icons have now been switch to gemoji and their copyright notice is linked from the readme