On Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:37:33 AM UTC-5, Thilo Six wrote: > Hello Tony, > > > Excerpt from Tony Mechelynck: > > -- <snip> -- > > 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. >
Right, but one that is more relaxed than the Vim license, like the MIT license for example, would not work. The Vim license requires anyone making changes to send those changes to Bram (perhaps if requested, I don't remember off the top of my head). Licensing with the MIT or Berkely-style, this requirement could not be enforced, whereas the GPL requires that the code be made available to anyone, accomplishing the goal of getting the change back to Bram. -- 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
