On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
Per Andersson wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
There already is an Erlang syntax and indent file. Maintainer is
Csaba Hoch. Can you please get in touch and merg the files?
The license mentioned in the files is GNU GPL version 3. Can you
please change that to the Vim license? Otherwise I cannot include
the files in the distribution.
Why can't GPLv3 files be included in the Vim distribution?
Especially since Vim already bundles files that are GPLv2 (or later
at your option) and the Vim License mentions GPL and
GPL-compatibility several times. So changing to GPLv2 should also be
ok?
The Vim license is GPL compatible, but once GPL is used it applies to
everything. It's a dual license mechanism.
For distributions that would like to include Vim it gets very
complicated if there are files with a different license.
But, according to comments in the files, there are already files being
distributed with Vim that are GPLv2-licensed (and not Vim/GPL
dual-licensed, AFAICT):
Under runtime/:
runtime/ftplugin/logcheck.vim
runtime/ftplugin/debchangelog.vim
runtime/spell/ga/ga_IE.diff
runtime/spell/gl/gl_ES.diff
runtime/spell/gd/gd_GB.diff
runtime/spell/sv/sv_SE.diff
And under src/:
src/sha256.c
Maybe those comments just need to be cleaned up?
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Best,
Ben
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