Hey, everyone! I have no doubt this has been asked before, but times change and new experiences happen, so I thought I'd ask it (again). I was approached by a company that wants to buy one or more fonts from me as well as any and all rights associated to them. They didn't even suggest a purchase price, but rather told me to make them the offer since they just started their fiscal year and budget requests are an option.
So, I'm pretty new to the idea and I was wondering, for those of you who've been there, done that, if you have any recommendations on how to approach the financial side of this, I'm all ears.
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But also, if this is a font that already existis in the world, and some people have licenses, I wanna ask the client why they want to own the rights to it? Can you satify the interlaying impulse they are trying to fulfil with some other licensing scheme?
In this particular case, the potential buyer would become the owner of the fonts going forward (though I'd love to know what you mean by "buy all possible licensing"). This is because they want to be able to include it in their GPL-licensed open source software which requires the fonts to be either GPL, SIL OFL, or similar since the fonts are compiled into the program itself and not referred to externally. The purpose is to make sure users don't run into font issues when collaborating with others.
"Buyout" was my choice of wording for this thread, probably poorly chosen. What would you recommend instead, given what I've described above?