For instance if you use white text with a white background while it may be a valid HTML document, it's not particularly useful for being able to read the information contained.
Even on Chrome the page is difficult to navigate.
This is on Chrome on iOS.
I'll happily file a bug report. Anyone want to help me do so?
Although I care about open-source licenses and about ncurses, I couldn't get interested in OP because the author failed to explain why anyone should care about the long string of facts. Why did the author write it? Was one of the reasons to publicize misbehavior by one of his 'dramatis personae'? I can't tell.
When the agreement was made to pass on the rights to the FSF, there was a clause that stated:
The Foundation promises that all distribution of the Package, or of any work
"based on the Package", that takes place under the control of the Foundation
or its agents or assignees, shall be on terms that explicitly and
perpetually permit anyone possessing a copy of the work to which the terms
apply, and possessing accurate notice of these terms, to redistribute copies
of the work to anyone on the same terms.
According to the maintainer Thomas E. Dickey, this precludes relicensing to the GPL in any version, since it would place restrictions on the programs that will be able to link to the libraries.According to the copyright on the document, the author started writing it about 15 years after the major events took place (and it is now 20 years later). My question is not so much why they wrote this, but why they waited 15 years to write this.
"Read this."
Not surprising. Eric has gotten away with over-claiming his contributions for decades.