antijingoist / opendyslexic

OpenDyslexic, a typeface that uses typeface shapes & features to help offset some visual symptoms of Dyslexia. Now in SIL-OFL.
https://opendyslexic.org
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License clarification #74

Open gavinhenderson opened 2 years ago

gavinhenderson commented 2 years ago

Sorry this is not a feature request but question about the license.

I am building an Open Source (MIT) application which is a templating system which generates PDF files. A user answers a set of questions and in turn a PDF is generated to match their specification. The application has multiple interfaces. It can be used via CLI, API and a web app.

I am very keen to allow people to chose opendyslexic as the font to be used in their generated PDFs. To do this I would use the font in the backend service, which would bundle the font as part of the PDF. A user of my software may never download anything other than a PDF.

My questions about how the license will impact my work are:

I have read both the OFL.txt file and the OFL-FAQ.txt file in depth. However, I was unable to answer my questions based on these documents, mainly because I don't understand the legal wording.

Related issue: https://github.com/AceCentre/aac-launchpad/issues/2