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> I love you all, so please use this font as much as you like for free. However, I would like to make sure you provide others the same liberty in creep's new incarnations. Therefore creep is licensed under the MIT License.

Happy it’s permissively licensed under MIT, but I wonder if the author intended to use a sticky license instead.

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What’s a sticky licence?

A sticky license includes a clause stipulating that while you can modify the code and share your modifications, any modifications must also be shared under that same license. This is usually referred to as a “share alike” clause. GPL is an example of a license like this.

Isn’t that called ‘copyleft’? I’m not sure ‘sticky’ is a common term.

Certainly not a term I've heard used to refer to licenses but it sounds less political than copyleft and I found it immediately understandable.

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