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by Someone 5066 days ago
If there is no added value, by definition, there would not be an advantage for the buyer.

The only added values I can think of would be the traditional reason why people used to buy CDs with freely available software:

- the seller delivers the stuff cheaper than if the buyer downloaded it themselves (highly unlikely nowadays, but maybe there are corners of the world where this still applies)

- the seller acts as a curator, sifting the gold from the junk, so that the buyer need not do that.

The 'curator' role might still be worth something. For example, a site could have a link 'do you like the template/icons/font we use? Buy it here'. That would be forbidden by this license (but selling all three in a package, or even two fonts with this license in one package, would be fine, at least in a literal interpretation of the license)