Re: ada & gui

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com> writes:

> If you modify a GMGPL library and distribute the modified code, you
> have to provide the modifications, as required by the GPL. Now you
> choose the license under which to redistribute your modified
> library. The GPL requires that you "not impose any further
> restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted
> herein." Doesn't that preclude your choosing a license that's more
> restrictive than GMGPL. If you redistribute under GMGPL, then your
> code that uses the library would be explicitly exempt from the
> linking provision, just as it was before you started.
>
> I can't help wondering if the GNAT modification was designed to
> achieve just this effect.

Well, that may be so. I guess on the other hand that a corporate legal
department faced with this might be happy with the use of an
unmodified GNAT RTL (where the position is clear) but unhappy with the
required use of a modified GNAT RTL (or other GMGPL library, of
course) where the position is less clear.