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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<!--
+  This POM has been created manually by the Ant Development Team for
+  Apache Gump in order to redirect users of very old Ant versions.
+  The versions are completely irrelevant for Gump.
+  Don't use it for any other purpose.
+-->
+<project>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>ant</groupId>
+  <artifactId>ant</artifactId>
+  <version>1.6.5</version>
+  <distributionManagement>
+    <relocation>
+      <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
+    </relocation>
+  </distributionManagement>
+</project>