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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 19:30:56 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 08:20:09PM -0500, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Daniel Weaver wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> tack, which is bundled with ncurses (but upon which nothing else in
> ncurses depends) is GPL. ncurses is an MIT-style license (which is more
> detailed than trio's because it states that modified versions may be
> distributed).
Daniel and Bjorn, any possibility of updating the license to reflect
that modifications can be redistributed? I've included a copy of the
ncurses license below.
--
albert chin (address@hidden)
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- Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, (continued)
- 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, 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 <=
- 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, 2002/02/01
Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8, Thomas Dickey, 2002/02/02