Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8

[Albert Chin]

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.

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albert chin (address@hidden)

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