Source Sans Pro licence details

Question

Hello everyone, I would like to solve once and for all the question of Source Sans Pro and its license.

Is Source Sans Pro under SIL OFL open license?

These pages say it is:

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/source-sans-pro

https://www.1001fonts.com/source-sans-pro-font.html#license

Also, Google fonts offers Source Sans 3. Which is a modified version of Source Sans Pro.

But how about Source Sans Pro itself? Is the license different that the open license of Source Sans 3?

The OFL SIL, the open license, allows for any use. Even for web self hosting. But if I look at Source Sans Pro on the Adobe website, it says it is free with the exception of web self hosting.

So I do not know what is the truth. Is is SIL OFL? If yes, web self hosting is not a problem. If no, why do so many pages say it is? Does anyone have a clarification of this situation?

Tarun Saini · Accepted Answer

Hi

@Dave_Safr

I checked with our product team and would like to inform you that Adobe's GitHub page is the official source of truth. Source Sans is released under the SIL OFL 1.1 license.

You can find all past releases, including Source Sans (not just the latest Source Sans 3), at this link: Adobe GitHub - Source Sans Releases.

Feel free to download the files and use them for any purpose allowed under the SIL OFL license, including web self-hosting if needed. Let us know if you have any other questions!

Regards,

Tarun

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