Lets take a little look at this copyright issue. Why dont we just rename ncurses3.4 to something else? dcurses perhaps?
If an old author of software gives it up, he should *give it up*. Ncurses works fine, tons of us use and like it... Can slang do everything ncurses can, and is it as widely ported? How much work would it take to switch the whole debian distro over to slang from the parts that use ncurses? Lets examine this "copyright" anyways. How the heck did whatsisname get a "copyright" to ncurses? As far as I knew, the original author of ncurses was Pavel Curtis, who also wrote the Lambdamoo server. At what point did some other party claim "copyright" to his work? I think we should just take the ncurses that we had, keep it, and if the "copyright holder" finds another "successor" (very bad form, IMHO), who makes ncurses better then what we currently have available, then sure, lets use that. In the meantime, Ill get off my rant if someone could let me know just how slang can completely replace ncurses, and is every bit as powerful and easy to program. Lots of packages depend on ncurses, including info, and it pains me not to have info available. Among other things. This should probably also go to the various parties involved. Does anyone have the address of the ncurses list? Don Dibos http://www.linuxos.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
