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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available
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* Samuel Tardieu:

> The case of GLADE at least needs to be cleared. To the best of my
> knowledge, all of its Ada sources belong to the Free Software
> Foundation and none to AdaCore. It is not clear to me whether the FSF
> (the only entity allowed to do it) has really changed the licence or
> if it is simply a mistake from AdaCore at packaging time.

I think it's FSF policy that anyone can remove the special exception
when redistributing the code.  There are variants of the exception
which make this explicit.