general copyright question

[Christopher Wright]

Saaa wrote:
>> Often, this means that --help or some option advertised by --help 
>> (like --version or even --license) might spit out the notice.
> 
> But lets asume you would use multiple sources with these kind of licenses.
> spitting out multiple notices is possible althought it would be kind of 
> long.
> Take Derelict; If you spit out the notice for every sourcefile you used that
> would end up being hundreds of lines of notice.
> 
> And how do you make clear that the license isn't the license of your 
> program?
> Because as I understand it: the program using the sourcecode doesn't need
> to have the same license (otherwise commercial use wouldn't be possible)

./myprogram --license
Myprogram is distributed under the GNU GPL version 2:
<gpl reproduced here>

It depends on Derelict, parts of which may be included in this binary, 
which is distributed under the following license:
<derelict license here>

It also depends on Tango, parts of which may be included in this binary, 
which is distributed under the following license:
<tango license here>