port existing x windows application to win32

Thomas Dickey dickey@his.com
Thu Nov 10 17:11:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> I'm really wondering what you're up to.  Michel's choice of words might

You shouldn't have to wonder if you read my response rather than
cut/paste from a boilerplate response regarding the cygwin dll.

The X library source is not GPL.  Likewise ncurses.
Stating that it is "effectively" GPL is at best misleading,
since it is possible for someone to take the same source
to a different place and use it without cygwin.

Misleading comments like that are why I put the discussion of licensing
in the ncurses faq (and are likely the reason why cygwin has similar
discussion on a webpage).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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