Add 'about' information to `-version` output

Adds a copyright and attribution message to the `-version` output
(the same as shown in the About dialog in the GUI).

Move the message to a function LicenseInfo in init.cpp.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 528c3df064..39453da9c8 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -195,7 +195,6 @@ bool static Bind(const CService &addr, unsigned int flags) {
     return true;
 }
 
-// Core-specific options shared between UI, daemon and RPC client
 std::string HelpMessage(HelpMessageMode hmm)
 {
     string strUsage = _("Options:") + "\n";
@@ -330,6 +329,18 @@ std::string HelpMessage(HelpMessageMode hmm)
     return strUsage;
 }
 
+std::string LicenseInfo()
+{
+    return FormatParagraph(strprintf(_("Copyright (C) 2009-%i The Bitcoin Core Developers"), COPYRIGHT_YEAR)) + "\n" +
+           "\n" +
+           FormatParagraph(_("This is experimental software.")) + "\n" +
+           "\n" +
+           FormatParagraph(_("Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying file COPYING or <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>.")) + "\n" +
+           "\n" +
+           FormatParagraph(_("This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit <https://www.openssl.org/> and cryptographic software written by Eric Young and UPnP software written by Thomas Bernard.")) +
+           "\n";
+}
+
 struct CImportingNow
 {
     CImportingNow() {