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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch
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Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
>> First thing to do if you receive software and worry about its
>> license is to find the license document. Then, if you need to
>> be fairly certain that you can do what you think you can do is
>> ask a lawyer. AdaCore has done so in the past, even informally
>> here on c.l.ada.
> This last sentence is a dangling thought. Please,
> for Sentence'Storage_Pool use null.

I'd ask the author before asking a lawyer.  Keep the lawyers at bay
whenever you can :-)

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.