On 2009-03-21 20:19:15 +0100, Fawzi Mohamed <fmoha...@mac.com> said:
On 2009-03-21 14:23:51 +0100, Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.li...@gmail.com> said:
Christopher Wright wrote:
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.
I'm not talking about distribution of the actual library machine code,
I'm talking about the LEGAL ISSUES. Tango's license apparently requires
you to explicitly include attribution for Tango in your program. This
means it's possible to naively compile "Hello, World" with Tango,
distribute it and break the law.
That glibc uses dynamic linking is immaterial: that there is no way to
avoid the legal issues with Tango no matter what you do is the point I'm
trying to make.
-- Daniel
This is bullshit, if you look at the header of c stdio.h you extremely
likely to find exactly the same disclaimer (at least I did find it).
If in your program you have an "about" and copyright, or you have
documentation to it, then yes you should credit the inclusion of tango
if you use the BSD license.
If you want to avoid this then you should use the AFL license (which
yes is incompatible with GPLv2).
This if looking more and more like FUD.
Fawzi
Sorry if I reacted a little too vehemently
Fawzi
