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The ncurses licensing saga

by Somasis on 8/29/15, 3:33 AM with 20 comments

• by gonzo on 8/29/15, 6:53 PM

  > In either case (whoever was the programmer), it was plagiarism. The manpage was written by Eric Raymond.

  Not surprising. Eric has gotten away with over-claiming his contributions for decades.

• by Aloha on 8/29/15, 10:25 AM

  What an interesting (and long) history of how software with mixed licensing is brought together. Copyright is complicated in software, when your contribution might be 15 lines that's really really important - or not.

• by jfb on 8/29/15, 9:04 PM

  NEWSFLASH: ESR is a tool.

• by LeoPanthera on 8/29/15, 9:10 AM

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