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Multiple security issues in GNU Screen

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414 points st_goliath | 1 comments | 13 May 25 11:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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warpeggio ◴[13 May 25 12:09 UTC] No.43971997[source]▶
So ... my tmux lifestyle is objectively superior in this one respect. Excellent.
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exploderate ◴[13 May 25 13:12 UTC] No.43972571[source]▶
Yes, that's why all the cool kids switched to tmux 17 years ago. The only argument the screen camp had was "no serial port support in tmux". To which we answered something about a smaller more modern code base...
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pengaru ◴[13 May 25 15:34 UTC] No.43974084[source]▶
> The only argument the screen camp had was "no serial port support in tmux".

No, the screen camp has the valid argument that licenses matter and tmux is not GPL software.

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1. unixplumber ◴[14 May 25 16:11 UTC] No.43986232[source]▶
tmux is MIT-licensed, right? The MIT license is very similar to the (3-clause) BSD license which makes it upward-compatible with the GPL (you can incorporate MIT- or BSD-licensed code with GPL-licensed code).

Edit: and to your point of a distributor withholding the source: yeah, so? If there ever came a point where the current maintainer closed its source (unlikely), somebody with a copy of it can step in with a fork. Or the project can die a deserved death for closing its source. At this point the benefits of open source are pretty much obvious to anyone with a brain, and closing the source of an open-source project is practically suicide.