TeX Live license issue

[Roland Hohler]

Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to use TeX Live in a commercial project to generate test protocols. Therefore I checked all licenses and found that there are some files licensed under the Aladdin Free Public License (AFPL). According to
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html
Aladdin is not a free software license. It forbids commercial use. The affected files are:

In ghostscript-9.53.3
gdevmd2k.c
gdevalps.c

In avantgar.r31835
uagb8a.afm
uagbi8a.afm
uagr8a.afm
uagri8a.afm

Ghostscript should be AGPL licensed. Were the two files simply forgotten during the license switch from AFPL to AGPL? In texlive.tlpdb the license for avantgar is stated with GPL.

May I assume that the package license is the valid one if nothing else is explicitly mentioned in e.g. a Readme file?

Kind regards
Roland Hohler


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