Re: Questions
- From: Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>
- To: foundation-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Questions
- Date: 28 Nov 2001 17:41:35 -0800
On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 17:15, Sander Vesik wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> > The whole editor flame war is so .... old. And as we all know vim is the
> > best editor so there's no point in arguing :)
> >
> > I have no technical opinion about VIM, never having used it. But it
> > has a serious problem of another kind: its license has a restriction
> > that goes too far, so it fails to meet the criteria of free software
> > (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html).
> >
> > I'm going to propose a compromise to the developer. Right now I am
> > still thinking about what to propose.
>
> A compromise on *WHAT*? What part has FSF in Vim that the developers would
> have any intrest in any kind of dialogue with FSF?
Clearly on getting the VIM author to change their license to a free
software license. Read the gnu website, it says that all software
should be free.
Greg
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