: What type of license will allow me to modify a base font with original ligatures and resell it as a commercial icon font? What licensing is appropriate for a font to be used as a base for

@Courtney577

If it is important that users can choose a different license should I suggest that you look at OpenSuSES copyright field for their templates. They don't include any license but state that any copy left licenses and the MIT license can be used. You might want to write something similar:


Copyright (c) 2013 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third
parties remain the property of their copyright owners, unless
otherwise agreed upon. The license for this file, and modifications
and additions to the file, is the same license as for the pristine
package itself (unless the license for the pristine package is not an
Open Source License, in which case the license is the MIT License).
An "Open Source License" is a license that conforms to the Open
Source Definition (Version 1.9) published by the Open Source
Initiative.

Please submit bugfixes or comments via bugs.opensuse.org/
Creator: Your Name


If you just want a very permissive license is the MIT license well known, very short and probably good for your purposes.

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@Chiappetta793

The SIL /OFL licence would work, and I know there are a few fonts licenced under GPL that might work. But the only way to get around including the licence (not sure why that is a problem) would be to find a public domain licenced font.

You can find more info and a few links in the Open Font Directory

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