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


From: Bjorn Reese
Subject: Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 10:38:52 +0000

Albert Chin wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 08:20:09PM -0500, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:

> > 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.

That grant is already given by

  "Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute [...]"

The main purpose of the trio license is to disclaim any warranties, not
to restrict use or distribution.

I agree with Thomas that the main concern isn't licensing issues, but
how to synchronize updates. This problem, however, is minimal, because
trio is currently in a stable state, and we seldomly have a need to
make new releases.

On another topic, there was a question about why trio is dependent on
the math library. The reason is that trio uses several math functions
to handle the floating-point specifiers (%a, %e, %f, %g).



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