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Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in
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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 13:14 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 10:51 +0000, Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:

> > It seems pretty clear from the general industry practice in software
> > that GPL is not revocable.  The Ada software in question does not
> > meet this definition of Free Software if the GMGPL licences really
> > have been revoked.
> 
> There is no instance of anything being revoked, AFAICS, if AdaCore
> is entitled to drop the exception from the source they distribute,
> which might feel like something has been revoked. I doubt this
> is an adequate description of the (GM)GPL legal situation.

Does someone know whether the right to use something is the
same as a license, and on what continent, or island?