port existing x windows application to win32

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> The word "effectively" might be misleading to you but it's correct from
> the standpoint of the *user* of any of these libraries.

Since it would be just as easy to be accurate, I'll tend to treat
ambiguous and (sometimes intentionally) misleading remarks as what
they are: a nuisance.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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