A Creative Commons Hypocrisy

A project I'm working on for school, when completed, will be licensed with the same Creative Commons license that this site employs. In order to use that cool double-C copyright-ish symbol, I downloaded the Creative Commons logo font. Now, as I try to make PDFs of my artwork, Acrobat is telling me that this font restricts embedding. How is it that an organization that is working hard to promote freely sharing information and assets in our society is restricting the way I use their font? That's just silly and hypocritical.