Ben Haskell wrote:
> 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
These slipped by. Let's ask the maintainers to change that.
Worst case we need to remove the parts that go under GPL.
> And under src/:
> src/sha256.c
The base version was GPL, the modified version was put in public domain.
At least that is how I understand it. If the GPL still applies somehow
we need to rewrite it.
> Maybe those comments just need to be cleaned up?
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