Subject: Re: FreeBSD impression & some suggestions about NetBSD (not troll)
To: netbsd List <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/27/2006 14:09:18
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 01:05:30PM +0300, Eye of the Beholder wrote:
> 2) I didn't like the fact that Free uses much gnu stuff (like ncurses)
> in the base system

That sort of comment is sometimes made by people who are unaware that
ncurses uses an MIT-style license.  I added some sections to my faq
quite a while ago, since some of the *BSD mailing list trolls would
for instance say that it was GPL.  Here's some facts:

http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#who_owns_it

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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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