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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:39:29 +0200
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"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> I received detailed answers from AdaCore's Robert Dewar and Arnaud
> Charlet regarding the licenses of software downloaded from their
> servers.  In summary:
>
> - All software downloaded from AdaCore is pure GPL, no matter what the
>   headers say.
>
> - This also applies to software downloaded from the CVS server in
>   source-only form.
>
> - They refuse to give any assurances regarding copyright ownership, so
>   I feel that I now need to go ask the authors.
>
> - They will not sign a license document, even if a lawyer asked them
>   (they are not required to sign anything, of course).

How can any AdaCore software then remain in Debian at all? How is any
Debian user supposed to know any AdaCore software is GPL if file
headers are invalid? How do *you* know? You have nothing written and
signed and the authors deny any validity of anything written in the
software itself.

-- 
Michael Bode