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This is great news; when I emailed you guys, you said "For open source projects, we’re working something out" but I didn't know what.

I backed Font Awesome Pro but I was afraid I'd only ever be able to use the Free version since all my projects are open-source.

My only concern left is for offline apps (like NW.js apps). I can make do with Font Awesome Free's icon set, but it'd be nice to have those SVG icons...

That definitely makes sense :)

And the CDN at least helps mitigate any deployment issues with not being able to keep the images in the repo.

Isn't the whole point of a CDN to distribute things?

Distribution is the means; the end is to load assets faster.