Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!sbsvax!greim From: greim@sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Questions on CURSES by Pavel Curtis 1982 Keywords: curses CURSES copyright Message-ID: <522@sbsvax.UUCP> Date: 23 Jun 88 16:42:57 GMT Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, West Germany Lines: 43 Hello, This are again some questions concerning copyright and concerning CURSES. (Remember, I posted such a question some months ago. Thanks to all who answered me) We have received the source of a package called CURSES, which seems to be a total rewrite of the original (and well loathed) Berkeley or AT&T CURSES. The author, Pavel Curtis, states in the headers of the files, that This software is copyright (C) 1982 by Pavel Curtis Permission is granted to reproduce and distribute this file by any means so long as no fee is charged above a nominal handling fee and so long as this notice is always included in the copies. Other rights are reserved except as explicitly granted by written permission of the author. My questions are 1.) Has the status of this software changed since 1982, i.e. is it still in the public domain? 2.) Where can I reach Pavel Curtis to ask him for the right to modify his source and include his software in any program ? 3.) Why do people use old CURSES with its lots of bugs and inefficiencies, if this one is superior, as it seems to be? Thanks for any answer, Michael PS : I will summarize to the net. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | UUCP: ...!uunet!unido!sbsvax!greim | Michael T. Greim | | or greim@sbsvax.UUCP | Universitaet des Saarlandes | | CSNET: greim%sbsvax.uucp@Germany.CSnet| FB 10 - Informatik (Dept. of CS) | | ARPA: greim%sbsvax.uucp@uunet.UU.NET | Bau 36, Im Stadtwald 15 | | Phone: +49 681 302 2434 | D-6600 Saarbruecken 11, West Germany | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | # include| +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+