eliminate writeln et comp?

[Daniel Keep]

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