Go OFL

[davelab6]

Please use the SIL Open Font License.

The OFL is specifically designed for fonts, and the MIT license applied to a font will require the font's copyright notice and the MIT license to be included in all documents that embed the font.

If you do decide to go OFL, please include an OFL.txt file in the repo. Eg https://github.com/impallari/Libre-Bodoni/blob/master/OFL.txt

[vyp]

+1.

[inferno986return]

I agree completely. SIL OFL is a much better license to go with for font files as it specifically covers embedding.

[sivapvarma]

Please use SIL OFL. This is the right license for fonts

[tobltobs]

-1
This is one of only a few good quality fonts with a permissive licence. With a SIL OFL licence the option to use this font as base for my own fonts, which I can distribute under my own licence would be gone.

[rstub]

@adamschwartz Any chance to have the license adapted? If you want the permissive nature of the MIT license, you could add a "font-embedding clause" as is usual with GPL fonts. Or you could go dual-license: MIT (possibly plus font-embedding clause) and OFL.

[davelab6]

@adamschwartz would love to get this updated :)

[matta]

With a SIL OFL licence the option to use this font as base for my own fonts, which I can distribute under my own licence would be gone.

@tobltobs, I do not believe you have this option now, in the sense that you can't simply remove the MIT license from the font.

[omasanori]

I truly hope the relicensing would happen.