Ernest Adrogué wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 15/01/12 @ 21:32 (+0100), Thilo Six escriu:
> > Dear Vim Script Maintainer,
> >
> > it has been revealed that there are files in the vim runtime distribution
> > that
> > are *not* licensed under the terms of the vim license.
> > For details what the vim license is, please take a look at: ':help
> > copyright' or
> > online at:
> > http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/uganda.html#license
> >
> > I writing to you, because you are mentioned as maintainer of one of those
> > files.
> > For distributions that would like to include Vim it is getting very
> > complicated
> > if there are files with a different license. It would require a lawyer or a
> > judge to decide how this applies to the runtime files.
> > And then it might be a bit different for various countries.
> >
> > Therefore we ask you kindly to change the license under which you release
> > the
> > files mentioned.
> > Currently there are three ways of further progress on this matter:
> > I. It is preferred that you relicense this particular vim runtime file(s)
> > under the terms of the Vim license mentioned above.
> >
> > II. If you are not willing to relicense the runtime file(s) under the
> > terms of
> > Vim license solely then we ask you dual-license the runtime file(s)
> > under
> > the licese of your choice *and* the terms of the Vim license.
> >
> > III. If neither I. nor II. is acceptable for you for what ever reason, then
> > we
> > might be forced to remove this runtime file(s) from the official vim
> > runtime file distribution from vim.org.
> >
> > If you are willing to relicense the runtime file(s) please sent them to
> > vim-dev,
> > so that your will is publicly documented and cc Bram and me.
>
> As requested, I'm relicensing the file in question under the terms of
> the Vim license.
Great, thanks.
I'll keep the file in latin1 as before. It's a bit more portable.
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