Hello Tony,

Excerpt from Tony Mechelynck:

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> The Vim license goes far back in the history of Vim, and I think Bram 
> put a lot of thought (over time) into making it exactly what he wanted. 
> OTOH the GPL is one of a short list of popular licenses and there may 
> have been requests to allow licensing Vim under "some well-known 
> license". Too lax a license (by Bram's standards) would definitely not 
> have suited him as it would have "forced his hand" into things he wasn't 
> ready to allow. 

The Vim license is even more relaxed then GPL.

> OTOH, too strict a license is acceptable as an 
> alternative but not as the only possibility.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Tony.

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Regards,
Thilo

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