diff --git a/webapp/config/licenser/known_exceptions.txt b/webapp/config/licenser/known_exceptions.txt
index 9d6c36f34..a89aea62c 100644
--- a/webapp/config/licenser/known_exceptions.txt
+++ b/webapp/config/licenser/known_exceptions.txt
@@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ webapp/config/tlds/sparqltag.tld
 webapp/config/tlds/c.tld
 webapp/config/tlds/fn.tld
 
+# PROBLEM: appears to be a modified version of some Sun code, which means that we need to
+#     distribute the original source as well as the modified source (plus the license, of course)
+webapp/config/tlds/database.tld
+
 # PROBLEM: requires an accompanying copy of the Apache license 1.1, as spelled out
 #     in the distribution from http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_taglibs-mailer.cgi
 webapp/config/tlds/taglibs-mailer.tld
diff --git a/webapp/config/tlds/database.tld b/webapp/config/tlds/database.tld
index 31a9e46a9..c21eb69d3 100644
--- a/webapp/config/tlds/database.tld
+++ b/webapp/config/tlds/database.tld
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ -->
+
 <!DOCTYPE taglib PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.1//EN" 
   "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-jsptaglibrary_1_1.dtd">
 <taglib>