[tex-live] TL 2009 not installing URW Garamond ?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 12 Oct 2009, at 12:40, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>
> Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>
>> sigh.  strangely enough, we didn't search every file on ctan (cs.  
>> 12k of
>> them) when we did away with the nonfree tree.
>> mind you, i'm not sure the urw fonts ever were on nonfree (and i'm  
>> not
>> about to search the transaction history to find out).
>
> OK, but it was a serious question : how is one supposed to know
> that CTAN (in its infinite wisdom) has classified URW Garamond
> as non-free ?  If, for example, I visit the TeX Catalogue and
> search for Garamond, I find it included in the Free_Math_Font_Survey.
> Furthermore, if I follow the link to Licences and then back
> to the Sarovar version of the Catalogue, and use the
> A-Z Index to find URW Garamond, I read
> "This bundle provides a set of Adobe Type-1 fonts which URW has made  
> available for free under the Aladdin Free Public License:"
>
> So where /is/ the information that CTAN has classified URW Garamond
> as "non-free", and given the above quotation, on what basis was
> this decision made ?

The catalog page found at

   http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/urw-garamond.html
   http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/entries/urw-garamond.html

indicates it is classified as "nocommercial".

JK