SIL Open Font License 1.1

Also known as OFL, OFL 1.1, OFL-1.1, SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Commercial use: allowed
Share alike: required
Attribution: required (keep the copyright and license notices)

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Write this as a license text (needs an account) DALICC reads the model above and writes what it permits, requires and prohibits in plain English. Without an account, the Text download above writes the model out from the vocabulary.

Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/OFL-1.1

Permissions

Charge distribution fee from the text
Commercial use from the text
Derivative works from the text
Derive from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
- Rename from the text
- Share alike from the text
Display from the text
Distribute from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
- Share alike from the text
Modified works from the text
Modify from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
- Rename from the text
- Share alike from the text
Present from the text
Reproduce from the text

Prohibitions

Change license from the text
Promote from the text
Sell copy from the text

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

What applies by default

The statements above are the library's reading of this license: each is marked with the sentence it rests on, or as a library convention where the text is not explicit. The statements below are the ones the DALICC reasoner supplies for acts the license says nothing about, from the default rules of the dependency graph it reasons with. Each one names the legal source it rests on. None of it is in the record.

No default rule of that graph reaches this license: it speaks about every act the rules are about.

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Terminates on breach: Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT.

Limitation of liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

Additional clauses

Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself. Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user. No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as presented to the users. The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written permission. The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any document created using the Font Software. This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are not met.

Info

Target asset types: Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://spdx.org/licenses/OFL-1.1.html
Legal code: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=OFL_web
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: SIL International
Attribution name: SIL International
SPDX identifier: OFL-1.1 on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier: OFL-1.1

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

Use this license

Everything below is generated from this record. Replace the example address with the address of your own work.

JSON sidecar

{
  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/OFL-1.1",
  "license-title": "SIL Open Font License 1.1",
  "spdx-id": "OFL-1.1",
  "attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle

@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/OFL-1.1> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/OFL-1.1"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/OFL-1.1" rel="license">SIL Open Font License 1.1</a>.</p>

This license asks for attribution, so the credit line is part of it.

Badge

Markdown

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HTML

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Review

Written from the license text by: Giray Havur
Written on: 2026-09-15
Second review: not yet done
Record changed since this review: yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings: 10 recorded, 7 applied to the record, 0 proposed

The SIL Open Font License is the standard licence for open fonts: use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify, redistribute and sell, on condition that the font is never sold on its own, that the notice and the licence travel with every copy, that a modified version does not use a reserved font name and that the font software stays under this licence. Nothing here is legal advice.

10 findings

info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

A font is a computer program and a work of design at once, so the record carries dalicc:CreativeWork and dcmitype:Software, the pair the review group uses for all four font records. The licence itself speaks of "Font Software" and defines it as "the set of files released by the Copyright Holder(s) under this license", which may include "source files, build scripts and documentation".
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

The grant reads: "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify, redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font Software, subject to the following conditions." That is the permissive base set, including cc:CommercialUse and dalicc:chargeDistributionFee. The licence says nothing about patents or sublicensing, so neither is written.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

Three. dalicc:sellCopy, because condition 1 says "Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself"; this is a restriction on how a copy may be sold, not a ban on commercial use, which condition 2 expressly allows when the font is bundled with software. dalicc:promote, from condition 4, which bars the use of the names of the Copyright Holders or Authors to promote, endorse or advertise a Modified Version. dalicc:ChangeLicense, from condition 5: the Font Software "must not be distributed under any other license".
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

Condition 5 requires the Font Software, modified or unmodified, to be "distributed entirely under this license", which is cc:ShareAlike. Condition 2 requires each copy to contain "the above copyright notice and this license", which is cc:Attribution and cc:Notice. The duties hang on odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive rather than on the licence, because the last sentence of condition 5 takes documents made with the font out of the reciprocity: "The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any document created using the Font Software."
major Rubric 5 dalicc:rename applied

Condition 3 says "No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding Copyright Holder", which is dalicc:rename on odrl:modify and odrl:derive. It binds only where the copyright statement of the font actually declares a reserved font name; this record, the plain OFL-1.1 id, carries the duty because the clause is part of the licence.
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:additionalClauses applied

The disclaimer is split at "IN NO EVENT SHALL" into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation. dalicc:additionalClauses carries all five conditions and the termination sentence, so that a reader can see the wording the duties were read from.
info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

The licence names no governing law and no term, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

Two gaps. The termination sentence, "This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are not met", has no property; proposed dalicc:terminatesOnBreach. The reserved font name is a named string that the copyright statement declares, and dalicc:rename cannot carry which name is reserved; proposed dalicc:reservedName as a literal qualifier on the rename duty.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer with the axioms of dg_default returned an empty list for this record.
info Rubric 10 family none

OFL-1.1, OFL-1.1-RFN and OFL-1.1-no-RFN have one and the same licence text: the three SPDX plain text files are byte for byte identical. The ids exist to record whether the copyright statement of a particular font declares a Reserved Font Name. The three records therefore differ in exactly one triple, the dalicc:rename duty on odrl:modify and odrl:derive.

Report an issue The review record as JSON The review checks the model against the license text. It is not legal advice.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, named the license the record itself is published under and removed the quotes that do not name the act they support.

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11 changes
- changed permission cc:CommercialUse
  
  was permission cc:CommercialUse
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify, redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font Software, subject to the following conditions:"
- changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:rename]
  
  was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:rename]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the above copyright notice and this license." Its duty cc:ShareAlike quotes "The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be distributed under any other license."
- changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike]
  
  was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the above copyright notice and this license." Its duty cc:ShareAlike quotes "The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be distributed under any other license."
- changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:rename]
  
  was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:rename]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the above copyright notice and this license." Its duty cc:ShareAlike quotes "The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be distributed under any other license."
- changed prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense
  
  was prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be distributed under any other license."
- changed prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  was prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written permission."
- changed prohibition dalicc:sellCopy
  
  was prohibition dalicc:sellCopy
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself."
- added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>
  
  Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.
- changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:rename]
  
  was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:rename]
  
  Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on odrl:derive, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:modify: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.
- changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike]
  
  was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike]
  
  Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on odrl:derive, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:modify: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.
- changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:rename]
  
  was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:ShareAlike, dalicc:rename]
  
  Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on odrl:derive, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:modify: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.
Version 1

Created from the license text on 2026-09-15 (Fonts and documentation).

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

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