Remove Shapes4FREE icons

[ajorg-aws]

The documentation uses external link icons from Shapes4FREE. The Shapes4FREE License is not an open source license (does not allow redistribution). There are comparable icons available from open source icon libraries. For example, Feather has a nice external link icon and an MIT License. Font Awesome also has some external link icons and a CC-BY-4.0 license for those, and there are likely other open source projects with similar icons. Alternatively, Unicode has the ↪ character, which is often used to denote external links, though it's not as familiar.

Would you consider replacing the Shapes4FREE icons with open source icons?

[mojoaxel]

@ajorg-aws Thanks!
This has not been a problem for over 4 years now but I think we should replace these icons!

[r3code]

Related #31

[r3code]

We can use instead of https://github.com/visjs/vis-network/blob/master/docs/img/external-link-icons/external-link-icon.png a "shortcut" icon from https://iconsvg.xyz/

[r3code]

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="5" height="5" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#000000" stroke-width="3" stroke-linecap="square" stroke-linejoin="arcs"><g fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd"><path d="M18 14v5a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H5a2 2 0 0 1-2-2V8c0-1.1.9-2 2-2h5M15 3h6v6M10 14L20.2 3.8"/></g></svg>

[r3code]

@mojoaxel maybe we just remove them? I didn't find any reference in vis-network files.

[Thomaash]

Hmm, I checked all of the projects and it doesn't seem to be used at all. We can probably remove it from all of them without any replacement.

@r3code do you plan to open PRs?

Occurrences:

• vis-data/docs/img/external-link-icons
• vis-graph3d/docs/img/external-link-icons
• vis-network/docs/img/external-link-icons
• vis-timeline/docs/img/external-link-icons

[r3code]

@r3code do you plan to open PRs?

@Thomaash You propose me to delete them by myself for all the projects you have listed?

[Thomaash]

If you want to you can. My motivation for opening these additional issues and not doing it myself was that this is a straightforward thing for first time contributors who don't have deep insight into the project but still want to contribute. You know something easy that anybody can do and then maybe work their way up to more complex contributions.

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