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I am aware that LiveCode leverages an Open Source font called 'fontawesome'

https://fontawesome.com/download

But the 'funny' thing is that there is a considerable difference between the glyphs in the versions of fontawesome available from that website:
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and those inwith the 'fontawesome.ttf' font contained inside the LiveCode .pkg file on my computer:
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I'd be grateful if someone could explain the relationship between those fonts and how their licensing works.

This message removed as improved stack posted below.

I think the font used in LiveCode is an older version of FontAweome. Probably v4 or v5.

My first picture is fontawesome version 5.

And, as both versions 5 and 6 beta seem full of smileys . . . I doubt very much that version 4 would have been much different.

It looks like FontAwesome has a "regular" icon set and a "solid" one. My bet is that LC is using the solid set from an older version.

https://fontawesome.com/v5/cheatsheet

I checked out your stack. This was my initial result in LC 10 DP1 in Kubuntu 20.04 64 bit:
I had to install all three FontAwseome 6 Free edition OTF files from the site to get the list to fully populate with these icons, but here's the after: