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key: atkinson-hyperlegible-font
short_name: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font License
name: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font License
category: Permissive
owner: Braille Institute
homepage_url: https://www.brailleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Atkinson-Hyperlegible-Font-License-2020-1104.pdf
spdx_license_key: LicenseRef-scancode-atkinson-hyperlegible-font
ignorable_copyrights:
    - Copyright Holder. Font Software
ignorable_holders:
    - Font Software
---

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font License

GENERAL
Copyright Holder allows the Font to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as it
is not sold by itself. The Font, including any derivative works, may be bundled, embedded,
redistributed and/or sold with any software or other work provided that the Reserved Typeface Name
is not used on, in or by any derivative work. The Font and derivatives, however, cannot be released
under any other type of license. The requirement for the Font to remain under this license does not
apply to any document created using the Font or any of its derivatives.

DEFINITIONS
"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical writer or other person who
contributed to the Font Software.
“Copyright Holder” refers to Braille Institute of America, Inc.
“Font” refers to the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font developed by Copyright Holder.
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by Copyright Holder under this license. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.
"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting, or substituting -- in part or
in whole -- any of the components of the Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the
Font Software to a new environment.
"Original Version" refers to the collection of the Font Software components as distributed by
Copyright Holder.
"Reserved Typeface Name" refers to the name Atkinson Hyperlegible Font.

PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
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:

1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original Version or Modified
Version, may be sold by itself.

2) The Original Version or Modified Version of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed
and/or sold with any other 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.

3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Typeface Name unless explicit
written permission is granted by Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font
name as presented to the users.

4) The name of Copyright Holder or the Author(s) of the Font Software shall not be used to promote,
endorse or advertise any Modified Version or any related software or other product, except:
(a) to acknowledge the contribution(s) of Copyright Holder and the Author(s); or
(b) with the prior written permission of Copyright Holder.

5) 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.

TERMINATION
This license shall immediately terminate and become null and void if any of the above conditions
are not met.

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. IN NO EVENT SHALL 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 OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT
SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.