The Open Font License was created by SIL Global employees Victor Gaultney and Nicolas Spalinger.

[6] The license was in a "public review" stage between 2005 and 2007[9] and version 1.1 was published in February 2007.

The license permits covered fonts to be freely embedded in documents under any terms.

The only stipulation is that fonts cannot be sold on their own, though they may be included in software bundles for sale.

[1] Although the license requires fonts to be bundled with software when sold, FSF states that this requirement is harmless because it can be satisfied with a simple hello world program.