On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:42 PM, James McCoy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 08:31:48PM -0500, Benjamin Fritz wrote: >> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Ben Fritz wrote: >> > >> >> On Monday, May 21, 2012 12:59:47 PM UTC-5, Thilo Six wrote: >> >> > > How about setting up an independent repo (not a clone) at >> >> > > http://vim-runtime.googlecode.com/ >> >> > > Code license: GNU GPL v2 >> >> > >> >> > runtimefiles are all (or better they all should be) licensed under Vim >> >> > licences. >> >> >> >> Yeah, but Google Code only has a few allowed licenses. Vim License is >> >> not one of them. Bram has dual-licensed Vim under GPL v2 and Vim >> >> License to allow putting it on Google Code. >> > >> > The dual-license wasn't created for that reason :-). >> > >> > I suppose it's OK to list the work as GPL, since it's the more >> > restrictive. Thus stays on the safe side. >> > >> >> My mistake, I thought that was the reason, since it wasn't >> dual-licensed to my knowledge until the Mercurial repo. Can you >> enlighten us? > > The old CVS repository shows that the license text was added to > runtime/doc/uganda.txt back in 2001[0] and it mentioned the GPL dual > licensing then. > > [0]: > http://vim.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/vim/runtime/doc/uganda.txt?r1=1.53&r2=1.54&;
I did not realize that. What are the reasons, then, for the dual license? I feel kind of silly for not noticing until we went to the Google Code repository. I do remember seeing a big licensing discussion back around that time, where I learned that Google Code only allows a limited set of licenses, GPL among them, so the fact that Vim is dual-licensed allowed it to be in Google Code at all. I guess the change wasn't made for that purpose though. So what were the reasons, whenever the change was made (for curiosity's sake)? -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
