From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 8 23:40: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7963537B403 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 23:40:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [206.40.252.115]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f696dqR26102; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 23:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f696dqV90189; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 23:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 23:39:51 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Wes Peters Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: nvi maintainer? Message-ID: <20010708233951.B90028@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200107072203.PAA09299@windsor.research.att.com> <20010708005155.J8775@canonware.com> <20010708032002.D97456@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> <20010708201329.A85258@dragon.nuxi.com> <3B4936F2.72D7C1C7@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B4936F2.72D7C1C7@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:45:38PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:45:38PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > 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. I am very surprised to hear this coming from you -- a commercial embedded developer. Remember, FreeBSD isn't the end of all -- rather we offer something others can take, modify, commercialize, propietize, and not give away the crown jewels. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message