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Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)



Igor Grobman <igor@igoria.net> writes:

> Some time around  Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:07:24 +1000, 
>          Craig Sanders wrote:
> 
>  > elvis-tiny is small enough to fit on too (although that may have
>  > changed now that we use slang rather than ncurses - can
>  > elvis-tiny use slang??)  and provides a decent editor for people
>  > who can't/won't use crap.
> 
> With all these elvis-tiny discussions, I have to remind everyone
> that elvis is non-free.  Technically, it shouldn't even be present
> in the base system (is it still?).

No.  elvis is non-free; elvis-tiny is not.  Look at the copyright
files.  AIUI elvis-tiny is a much earlier version of elvis which was
still free.  Or something.  Of course the copyright files may be
``inaccurate'', I'm disillusioned enough to realise that's a very real
possibility these days.

-- 
James
~Yawn And Walk North~                                  http://yawn.nocrew.org/


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