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Aidan Skinner <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: other
Other License: The license of the run-time units of the GNU Ada compiler.

It is similar to the guile licesnce. It\'s frequently called the \"GNAT 
Modified General Public License\". Bascially it is the GPL with the following 
text appended:

\"As a special exception, if  other  files instantiate generics  from this 
unit, or  you link this  unit with other  files to produce  an executable,  
this  unit does  not  by  itself cause  the  resulting executable to be  
covered by the  GNU General Public License.  This  exception does  not  however 
invalidate any  other reasons  why the executable file might be covered by the 
GNU Public License.\"

This makes it behave similarly to the LGPL for the purpouses of linking.

Package: libra
System name: libra
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Libra aims to provide a utility library for Ada \'95 containing useful data 
structures (lists, trees etc) and networking abstractions
 (NNTP, SMTP etc) as well as cryptographic algorithims.

It currently resides at http://www.velvet.net/~aidan/tech/libra.html.