Which Curses Library?

[967L1hU5]

I am in indecision about which Curses library to use. I don't really know the difference from any of them, but I read that ncurses in cross-compatible, which is a plus in my book. Could anyone list pros and cons of them?

[helios]

I assume you're talking about PDcurses vs. ncurses.
They're both pretty much the same, I think, as they're implementations of curses. I haven't really compared them, but it's likely they share a common subset that's compatible with it, while at the same time making their own incompatible extensions to the interface. Both are equally portable across different platforms, if that's your concern.
Personally, I'd go with PDcurses because I prefer to stay away from L/GPL'd software if there are suitable alternatives available.

[967L1hU5]

Probably a silly question, but what's L/GPL?

[helios]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL

[967L1hU5]

Ahh, I guessed it would be in that area. Why would I want to stay away from said entities?

[helios]

Why would I want to stay away from said entities?

Ho, boy.

A fair summary of the various open source licences:
http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/foss-licences-wars/
A pro public domain (or PD-like licences) and strongly anti-GPL rant. Don't read it expecting a neutral view:
http://dewimorgan.livejournal.com/21650.html
Why it's generally not a good idea to license your open source software in a way that's incompatible with the GPL:
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html
A summary of the advantages and disadvantages of the GPL. I'm not too sure about this one, but I thought the opinion of the FreeBSD developers was worth listening to:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl/gpl-advantages.html
Finally:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

[967L1hU5]

Don't wanna be rude, but tl;dr. But in my time dawdling the internet between posts, I've settled with PD.