Forwarded from: marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort)
A.s. reproduction to list allowed.
The Ncurses author is Michael van Canneyt, however most other FPC authors contributed to it, and we don't have a sign away rights to a foundation system. Be sure to get ncurses from current CVS, and don't use e.g. 1 1/2 year old 1.0.10 sources.
CVS is open for anonymous use, and there is also a webinterface development page: http://www.freepascal.org/develop.html webcvs ncurses dir: http://www.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/fpc/packages/extra/ncurses/
FPC used to have an own version of the LGPL (which we still call LIBRARY GPL btw), from before LGPL existed. Somewhere in 2000 this was rectified, but because users felt incertain about some of the clauses, an additional clarification to the base LGPL text was added, which is quoted below:
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