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Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8
From: |
Albert Chin |
Subject: |
Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8 |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Feb 2002 19:20:14 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:20:33PM -0800, Daniel Weaver wrote:
> At 06:05 PM 2/1/02 -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:31:12PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >> > I think trio has replacement for all the functions. The libxml project
> >> > currently uses it and we haven't seen any obvious problems.
> >> >
> >> > We *need* a 64-bit version of the ncurses library so we're prepared to
> >> > submit a patch with *some* solution.
> >>
> >> sure - I don't have any problem with that. (Disabling the function isn't
> >> a very close third alternative).
> >
> >What's the best way to conditionally compile the trio files if needed?
> >I plan on placing the source files in ncurses/base. A few ideas:
>
> Trio does not have the same copyright as ncurses. Trio uses a MIT type
> of free software while ncurses uses the GNU Copy-left. The copy-left
> strictly forbids mixing copyrights. Distributing trio sources code
> with ncurses would violate the copy-left.
The GPL does *not* forbid mixing copyrights (wrong term, you mean
license).
> Any changes you make directly to ncurses are also OK because they are
> original work. Read the Copy-left before deciding how to use these
> two packages:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html
Incorrect. Read:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
--
albert chin (address@hidden)
- Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, (continued)
- Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, Thomas Dickey, 2002/02/01
- Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, Albert Chin, 2002/02/01
- Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, Thomas Dickey, 2002/02/01
- Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, Albert Chin, 2002/02/01
- Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, Albert Chin, 2002/02/02
- Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, Daniel Weaver, 2002/02/01
- Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, Thomas E. Dickey, 2002/02/01
- Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, Albert Chin, 2002/02/01
- Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, Bjorn Reese, 2002/02/02
- Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, Daniel Stenberg, 2002/02/04
- Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8,
Albert Chin <=
Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, Thomas Dickey, 2002/02/02