Hi all, I know it’s kind of tedious, but I have question about the vim license (:help license) specifically relating to the runtime files.
I have made a derivative work of the xxd.vim syntax file as distributed by vim and as authored by Charles Campbell. This is to be distributed as part of a vim plugin (Vimspector) that is itself licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. By derivative work here I mean that I copied it, made some relatively minor changes, and applied it to a different filetype. Although Charles doesn’t specify, I’m assuming that the license of the original xxd.vim is the same as that of vim (i.e. that in :help license). Unfortunately, I wasn’t sure from that exactly what the situation was for derivative works, as the license speaks mostly about full copies of vim rather than “parts” such as the runtime files. So in short the questions are: 1) Are the runtime files licensed in the same way as Vim proper ? 2) If so, what are the license restrictions on creating derivative works of runtime files? For the record, I have elected to include the entire header from xxd.vim and the entire Vim license in the affected file for now, but I just want to make sure that this is all legit/OK? https://github.com/puremourning/vimspector/pull/507/files#diff-d2d644aaf55a7738084ecc39d6576740c16c914e74602d205c97dd30f44036bd <https://github.com/puremourning/vimspector/pull/507/files#diff-d2d644aaf55a7738084ecc39d6576740c16c914e74602d205c97dd30f44036bd> Thanks, Ben -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/D8276D7F-DA0B-4750-BA82-9E8573A95A03%40gmail.com.
