From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2c7b0b777188b7c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.volia.net!news-out.ntli.net!newsrout1-gui.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe1-gui.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1128499462.850353.146890@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <9070id.mp6.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <1128510619.707554.152420@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <07i0id.nkh.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <1128521177.691027.124580@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:28:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.4.127.115 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe1-gui.ntli.net 1128536911 80.4.127.115 (Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:28:31 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:28:31 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5419 Date: 2005-10-05T18:28:31+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:06:17 -0700, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Run-time library /= compiler. You yourself pointed that out today in > a previous post. Therefore, your comparison with GIMP is incorrect, > because GIMP does not include any "run-time library" into images. although a multi-colour gradient fill you make with GIMP *is* a creative work under copyright law, and the output generated would reasonably be covered as a derived work. And I would guess an aesthetically pleasing filter kernel built into GIMP would be treated similarly. And creative special-effects built in too. Fonts you would expect also to be covered, if they were build in to the GIMP, but these are normally separate, but the copyright on fonts is rather limited, if I remember correctly. I agree with Jean-Pierre's analogy. -- Adrian