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anon wrote:
> Check with the true GNAT creator and maintainers.

I'm curious, does AdaCore have ways to legally represent
the announced copyright holders of GNAT on behalf of the
FSF? GNAT Copyrights are annouced for
- the FSF,
- The University of Toronto,
- Florida State University,
- The European Space Agency,
- Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.

> And that means GNAT Ada 2005 is GPL 2 or 3.

And the library is with or without special exception. Depending
from where you get the license.
In Debian, license status is described, with references, in the
file
/usr/share/doc/gnat-4.[12]-base/copyright

> If the Debain maintainer has change this or is allowing an illegal 
> version to exist the Debain maintainers may be in some legal hot water.

They didn't change AdaCore's GPL edition.
AdaCore's GNAT GPL edition is available from AdaCore.
Debian's GNAT is available as part of Debian, and is not
derived from AdaCore's GNAT GPL edition.

A further reference is the Debian Policy for Ada,
See http://www.ada-france.org/debian/debian-ada-policy.html

These resources and perhaps the FSF Licensing FAQs should
render presumptions about the Debian maintainers' work needless.