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Re: Does utilities Tack being included by default in 5.7


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: Does utilities Tack being included by default in 5.7
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:41:00 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, yuntong.jin wrote:

Hi List,
With ncurses v5.6 i get utilities Tack,but not in v5.7 anymore on Opensolaris, and in README i see:
The utilities are as follows:

      tic             -- terminfo source to binary compiler
      infocmp         -- terminfo binary to source decompiler/comparator
      clear           -- emits clear-screen for current terminal
      tput            -- shell-script access to terminal capabilities.
      toe             -- table of entries utility
      tset            -- terminal-initialization utility
it also mentioned (The 'tack' program may be distributed separately).

Could someone explain on this?

tack is distributed separately because some packagers insisted that
including it made ncurses GPL.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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