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Comment by kanamekun | Hacker News Reader

I'm a huge colourlovers fan, so I knew I had to check out your creative market. Congrats... the site looks great!

I just went to buy a font for use in an iPhone app, which in part allows for people to type messages in various fonts. All the fonts I liked had "simple" licenses that seemed to prevent that sort of usage.

Are you guys going to have more fonts with non-simple licenses, to be a bit more mobile-app dev friendly? If you were, I would buy hundreds of dollars worth of fonts from you! It is not easy to find great fonts with a mobile-friendly license.

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You're saying the license didn't permit the font to be distributed in the app right?

So you're asking that they include some sort of [re]distribution license?

Yes that would be nice to be able to purchase fonts with license add-ons.

  [ ] Usage        $10
  [✓] Distribution $100
  [ ] Resale       $1000

Yah, exactly: a redistribution/resell license. This is from the FAQ:

"Every product sold on Creative Market comes with our SimpleLicense. This license allows your customers to use your product in personal or commercial projects, but does not grant the right to redistribute or resell your product, whether modified, unmodified, or as part of a new work."

https://creativemarket.com/faq

More info on the Simple license here: https://creativemarket.com/license

Ok, this is confusing. IF the license allows you to use the font in a commercial product, how does it then not allow you to redistribute or sell the same product? Isn't the selling / redistribution part what makes a product commercial in the first place?

Presumably you can sell a product which uses the font, but you can't actually sell the font file.

What we're trying to do with our SimpleLicense is to not create one license that covers all usage scenarios, but cover most of them in one license... and then we will be adding others for things like resale & distribution. So yes, give us some time. :)

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