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Re: port existing x windows application to win32


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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