Is it Free Software or Open Source?
Ncurses is free software. It is not `open source’. That term applies to a mixture of proprietary software and quasi-free software, and is being promoted currently by several people for a variety of reasons: some as a compromise (in the pejorative sense) between free software and proprietary, and others to take credit for brokering the release of some proprietary software under less stringent conditions. By relabeling free software (and revising the order of causes and events), the supporters of `open software’ are doing the development community a disservice.
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