On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 04:46:23PM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Christian Robinson wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, David Fishburn wrote: > > > > > When plugins are developed and made available on the Vim website, do > > > they adopt the Vim licence? > > > > The authors choose the license. Generally they adopt the Vim license, > > or another "open source compatible" license; I've seen some with GPL, > > some with BSD, and even one with Creative Commons. > > Yes, authors are free to pick a lincense. However, to be able to be > included in the distribution the Vim license is needed.
I think/hope you mean "compatible with the Vim license is needed", since there are already runtime files included which aren't using Vim's license (e.g., runtime/syntax/initng.vim and runtime/syntax/dockerfile.vim). Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <[email protected]> -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
