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Thomas E. Dickey

Thomas E. Dickey is the developer and maintainer of widely distributed open-source Unix tools including xterm, ncurses, lynx, mawk, vile and byacc, published at invisible-island.net. His projects are free software, with xterm and ncurses under MIT/X11-style permissive licences.

Licensing at a Glance

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  1. Dickey's development projects include xterm, ncurses, lynx, mawk, vile, byacc, cdk, diffstat and vttest.[1]

  2. ncurses may be used, copied, modified, merged, published, distributed, sublicensed and sold under an MIT-style permission notice that must be included in all copies or substantial portions.[2]

  3. Dickey states he applied the MIT X11 licence to his ncurses contributions, the same licence he was using for xterm.[3]

  4. The ncurses FAQ addresses whether ncurses is GPL-licensed and explains that the MIT-style licence is often referred to by reference to the MIT X distribution terms.[4]

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References

  1. Thomas E. Dickey's software development projects · invisible-island.net · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. NCURSES — Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) · invisible-island.net · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. NCURSES – Licensing · invisible-island.net · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. NCURSES — Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) · invisible-island.net · retrieved 2026-09-27
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