diff --git a/include/hershey_fonts.h b/include/hershey_fonts.h
index e33fb3fca0..43d9fda079 100644
--- a/include/hershey_fonts.h
+++ b/include/hershey_fonts.h
@@ -1,5 +1,29 @@
 /* Hershey fonts */
 
+/* This distribution of the Hershey Fonts may be used by anyone for
+ *  any purpose, commercial or otherwise, providing that:
+ *  1. The following acknowledgements must be distributed with
+ *  the font data:
+ *  - The Hershey Fonts were originally created by Dr.
+ *  A. V. Hershey while working at the U. S.
+ *  National Bureau of Standards.
+ *  - The format of the Font data in this distribution
+ *  was originally created by
+ *  James Hurt
+ *  Cognition, Inc.
+ *  900 Technology Park Drive
+ *  Billerica, MA 01821
+ *  (mit-eddie!ci-dandelion!hurt)
+ *  2. The font data in this distribution may be converted into
+ *  any other format *EXCEPT* the format distributed by
+ *  the U.S. NTIS (which organization holds the rights
+ *  to the distribution and use of the font data in that
+ *  particular format). Not that anybody would really
+ *  *want* to use their format... each point is described
+ *  in eight bytes as "xxx yyy:", where xxx and yyy are
+ *  the coordinate values as ASCII numbers.
+ */
+
 /*
  *  Hershey fonts are vectored fonts.
  * Note one can find many formats for these vectored fonts