Christopher Wright wrote: > Daniel Keep wrote: >> When was the last time you had to put this in your GCC-compiled programs? >> >> "Portions of this program Copyright (C) Free Software Foundation. Uses >> glibc." > > Executable code resulting from compilation is not a work derived from GCC. > > glibc is extremely difficult to link statically and is distributed under > the LGPL, so no copyright notice is necessary. > > If dmd had good support for dynamic linking, this wouldn't be nearly as > much of an issue. Sadly, ddl seems to be on hiatus, and at any rate, it > can't be applied to the runtime.
I think you're missing my point. I'm saying that a standard library shouldn't require you to insert legal disclaimers or attribution notices into your program or its documentation. A standard library should be be as invisible as possible in this regard. -- Daniel