I agree w/ everything you're saying, except that I read "...as long as they do not use my font data as a basis for their font..." as "don't use the machine-read

I agree w/ everything you're saying, except that I read "...as long as they do not use my font data as a basis for their font..." as "don't use the machine-readable data in my font files as the basis...". Analogously, I read it as: "Go ahead and write a program that does exactly what my program does. Just use the output of mine or the original mine was meant to emulate, not the code I wrote, as your basis."