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I saw the Deletion requests. I think the prohibition of selling the font itself doesn't necessarily mean it is non-free because:
- It is approved as a free license by Free Software Foundation and by Open Source Initiative. See SIL Open Font License, FSF, OSI, Open Source Definition, The Free Software Definition.
- You can sell a software package that includes the font according to OFL's FAQ.
- Why won't the OFL let me sell the fonts alone? Because "the only people who ought to profit directly from the fonts should be the original authors" according to OFL's FAQ.
- Some people consider that GPL'd software itself cannot be sold, either. In this article, the author thinks "you can charge as much as you want for distributing, supporting, or documenting the software, but you cannot sell the software itself". --Tomchen1989 (talk) 10:01, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
No longer allow OFL as the only option for symbol-only uploads[edit]
See Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#No_longer_allow_OFL_as_the_only_option_for_symbol-only_uploads ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ ✍ ⏿) 02:18, 28 August 2018 (UTC)