Re: Does utilities Tack being included by default in 5.7

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, yuntong.jin wrote:

> Hi List,
> With ncurses v5.6 i get  utilities Tack,but not in v5.7 anymore on 
> Opensolaris, and in README i see:
> The utilities are as follows:
>
>       tic             -- terminfo source to binary compiler
>       infocmp         -- terminfo binary to source decompiler/comparator
>       clear           -- emits clear-screen for current terminal
>       tput            -- shell-script access to terminal capabilities.
>       toe             -- table of entries utility
>       tset            -- terminal-initialization utility
> it also mentioned (The 'tack' program may be distributed separately).
>
> Could someone explain on this?

tack is distributed separately because some packagers insisted that
including it made ncurses GPL.

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