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From: perry@jekyll.piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: ncurses ???
Date: 16 Jun 1997 22:25:25 -0400
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Ruben van Staveren <ruben@luna.net> writes:
> It seems more applications (NcFTP, Mutt) need ncurses instead of 
> just curses, and as the ncurses maintainer states that 4.4BSD curses
> is discontinued, why does NetBSD not import ncurses ?

We were about to, and then the goddamn war over the ownership of the
code started. Some of the authors are disputing the right of others to
make changes to the code, apparently.