From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 9 0: 5:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [208.247.99.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C9237B409; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 00:05:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from localhost.softweyr.com ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=bf605f45b4c16ff79bcff88172b590b0) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15JVCN-0000mS-00; Mon, 09 Jul 2001 01:11:15 -0600 Message-ID: <3B495913.89A8C1C2@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 01:11:15 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: nvi maintainer? 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> <20010708233951.B90028@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 David O'Brien wrote: > > 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. But the likelihood of putting vi on an embedded system is low, and the likelihood of putting a modified vi on an embedded system is very very small. The likelihood of putting a 1.2 megabyte vi on *my* embedded system is so small science has not yet invented an instrument that can measure it. What I'm saying is there are better arguments against vim than the license. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message