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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:black">But isn't the question just why there aren't more fonts supported by getnonfreefonts?
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It is clear that the tool it self cannot be included in TL as per policy. <br>
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But what keeps the script from supporting more available non-free fonts? <br>
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/daleif<br>
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<b>From:</b> Ulrike Fischer [news3@nililand.de]<br>
<b>Received:</b> onsdag, 13 apr. 2016, 20:32<br>
<b>To:</b> tex-live@tug.org [tex-live@tug.org]<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tex-live] getnonfreefonts<br>
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<div class="PlainText">Am Wed, 13 Apr 2016 19:04:20 +0100 schrieb Philip Taylor:<br>
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> Ulrike Fischer wrote:<br>
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>> I wonder why you are asking on the texlive list that they provide<br>
>> scripts to install fonts which have a license which doesn't allow to<br>
>> include them im texlive. <br>
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> Isn't exactly the point, Ulrike ? Whether one thinks it a good idea or<br>
> not, TeX Live has a policy of excluding anything that it deems<br>
> "non-free", so it cannot (by definition) include these fonts. But an<br>
> open-source script (i.e., "free", in the TeX Live sense) that a user can<br>
> use to /add/ such fonts to his or her own personal TeX Live<br>
> installation, is surely a Good Thing [tm], and its inclusion in TeX Live<br>
> can only be of benefit.<br>
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But as you should know texlive doesn't include tools which have the<br>
sole/main purpose to support something unfree. <br>
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-- <br>
Ulrike Fischer <br>
<a href="http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/">http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/</a><br>
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