@JTDType There’s of course no guarantee that one in ten thousand of the initial takers would seek Nick out for a full price annual web license after its source was re-closed, but I bet some would.
By the way—did he get the math wrong on this? .01% of 24k is 2.4
Google Fonts payed him less than the price of 3 ‘typical basic annual web licenses’ (over some unspecified period of years) to open source Bellefair? And he agreed to this?