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Date:      Sun, 08 Jul 2001 22:45:38 -0600
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: nvi maintainer?
Message-ID:  <3B4936F2.72D7C1C7@softweyr.com>
References:  <200107072203.PAA09299@windsor.research.att.com> <xzp3d88s3o0.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010708005155.J8775@canonware.com> <20010708032002.D97456@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> <20010708201329.A85258@dragon.nuxi.com>

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David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 03:20:02AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> > OR... import Vim and get rid of nvi?  :-)
> ..snip..
> > The maintainer reserves the right to include any changes in the official
> > version of Vim.  This is negotiable.  You are not allowed to distribute a
> > modified version of Vim when you are not willing to make the source code
> > available to the maintainer.
> 
> Uh... did you read this part __carefully__??

I don't see a problem there.  It's not like we're going to hide the source
to FreeBSD from the vim maintainer.  OTOH, I don't really think we need
a "better" vi bad enough to lump in vim.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/

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