Well for one thing FF Meta isn't free or Free and is probably also trademarked.
Having an OFL (Open Font License) font of high quality is a good thing.
Also OFL licensed is Andika (http://scripts.sil.org/andika) which I'm using in an app for children as the letters are mostly in the form that they would be handwritten was the best I could find in a few hours searching (free and paid) and most of the licenses for use in apps looked very expensive.
I agree, licensing seems the most plausible reason for releasing it under a different name.
Also, I like Andika. To me, it looks like a proportional-width interpretation of Monaco, a monospaced font that has shipped with Macs for the last few decades.
Having an OFL (Open Font License) font of high quality is a good thing.
Also OFL licensed is Andika (http://scripts.sil.org/andika) which I'm using in an app for children as the letters are mostly in the form that they would be handwritten was the best I could find in a few hours searching (free and paid) and most of the licenses for use in apps looked very expensive.