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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Dear Sir or Madam,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">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 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html">https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Aladdin is not a free software license. It forbids commercial use. The affected files are:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">In ghostscript-9.53.3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">gdevmd2k.c<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">gdevalps.c<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">In avantgar.r31835<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">uagb8a.afm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">uagbi8a.afm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">uagr8a.afm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">uagri8a.afm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">May I assume that the package license is the valid one if nothing else is explicitly mentioned in e.g. a Readme file?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Roland Hohler <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr. phil. nat.
</span><span lang="DE" style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Roland Hohler<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Verkehrstechnik<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Entwicklung<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">VITRONIC Dr.-Ing. Stein<br>
Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH<br>
Hasengartenstr. 14<br>
65189 Wiesbaden,<br>
Germany<br>
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Fon: +49 611 7152 367<br>
Fax: +49 611 7152 133<br>
</span><a href="https://www.vitronic.de/"><span lang="DE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">www.vitronic.de</span></a><span lang="DE" style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
Roland.Hohler@vitronic.com<br>
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</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:7.5pt;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">VITRONIC Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH<br>
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Birgitt Stein, Matthias Pörner, Daniel Scholz-Stein<br>
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Sitz: Wiesbaden, HRB Wiesbaden 6119<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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