Hello Tony and Ben,

Excerpt from Ben Fritz:

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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.
>>
> 
> Right, but one that is more relaxed than the Vim license, like the MIT
> license for example, would not work.

Thanks for the clarification. Sorry for the noise.

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Regards,
Thilo

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