Re: Questions

[grahame azale net (Grahame Bowland)]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:02:08PM +0000, Sander Vesik wrote:
> 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.

Well, it's not a compromise of much value to RMS if it's a 
non-free license. So the compromise is in finding a free 
license that is amenable to the author.

Although vim is in debian main so I'm not sure what the 
problem is.

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Grahame Bowland <grahame azale net>