Re: Questions

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 28 Nov 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> 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.

I still miss the part that would be the compromise, i'm afraid.

> 	Greg
> 

	Sander

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