Re: Questions

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

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