Re: ada & gui

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

John B. Matthews wrote:
> In article <m27jf9blo5.fsf@grendel.local>,
>  Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:

>>IANAL, any more than anyone else here, but my take on this is that if
>>you use an unmodified GMGPL library there's no impact on your code. If
>>however the GMGPL library has to be modified in order for your code to
>>work it seems likely that you would have to treat the library as being
>>GPL -- so your code would have to be released as (GM)GPL. Or not
>>released, of course.
> 
> 
> IANAL either, but I have a different take: 

Neither am I; there is another phrase, "this unit".
When you modify this unit, you create a derivative work.
What's the status of the exception which seems to apply to
the original work?

The section on embedded fonts in the GPL FAQ seems to talk about
similar exceptions and their relation to derived fonts.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException