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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: ncurses is ancient, and rxvt terminfo is broken
From:       Lalo Martins <lalo () webcom ! com>
Date:       1998-09-16 14:13:02
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On Sep 16, Martin Schulze decided to present us with:
> Avery Pennarun wrote:
> > People noticed months ago (leading to the long and complicated transfer of
> > ownership to FSF) that ncurses versions up to 4.1 are actually non-free
> > according to the DSFG:
[...]
> Err, if the new ncurses is non-free and if we include it in favour of the
> old one, tons of packages suddenly become non-free (i.e. for contrib) just
> because they base on ncurses which has become non-free?

I think he said the _old_ one is non-free

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