Daniel Keep wrote:
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
Right. It's invisible with glibc because you link to it dynamically, and
because everyone installs it by default. Druntime has neither of these
advantages.
