Re: draft for new Vim license

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net> writes:

> I have attempted to add the possibility to allow people to distribute a
> modified Vim, under the condition that they include the source code.
> This makes it possible to distribute it in a (more or less) closed group
> of people and not having to provide a copy to the maintainer (that's
> me).  For example, it would be possible to distribute a modified version
> of Vim within a company, so long as the sources are also available to
> the people using this modified version of Vim.  Thus it's possible that
> the changes are kept as a secret within that company.

The new license you just posted, in my opinion, would be DFSG-free.
It seems to me that it would also be GPL compatible, but I'm not
certain and I'd want to hear what RMS has to say about that.