Re: ncurses license

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:57:31PM -0800, Dan Maroff wrote:
> What kind of license is ncurses under.  I want to

It's in most of the source files (otherwise known as MIT-style since it's
similar to the MIT X license):

/****************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 1998,1999,2000,2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.         *
 *                                                                          *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
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 * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,      *
 * distribute, distribute with modifications, sublicense, and/or sell       *
 * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is    *
 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:                 *
 *                                                                          *
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included  *
 * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.                   *
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 * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF               *
 * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.   *
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 * DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR    *
 * OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR    *
 * THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.                               *
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 * holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the     *
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 * authorization.                                                           *
 ****************************************************************************/

> write proprietary software in Linux but Im afraid of
> running into problems where I would be forced to
> distribute my source code.  Would I have such a
> problem if I use ncurses?
> 
> Thank you.
> -Dan
> 
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