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Ambient is an independant binary that replace workbench, just as Magellan, you don't have to link anything to it
Not quite true. Any program which uses workbench.library or icon.library would be linked against Ambient's versions of these when run.
With the completely GPL Ambient release, this means that strictly you cannot legally run non-free software which uses workbench.library or icon.library (since you cannot link non-free software to a GPL library).
Somebody should talk to David about re-licensing those libs as LGPL.
Cheers,
Rich