TeX Live license issue

[Henri Menke]

On Fri, 2022-02-11 at 16:10 +0000, Roland Hohler wrote:
> 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:

Is the license header in these files explicit about AFPL referring to
Aladdin Free Public License? I'm asking because F is right next to G on
the keyboard so a typo in AGPL making it AFPL is not too far out of the
question.

Cheers, Henri

> 
> 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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