
Copyright for elvis 1.4 (elvis-tiny)

This file contains the copyright part from the original README,
and a clarification by the author.

Copyright (C) Steve Kirkendall 1991

==================== original copyright ===========================

Elvis is a clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor.  Elvis supports nearly
all of the vi/ex commands, in both visual mode and colon mode.

Elvis is freely redistributable, in either source form or executable form.
There are no restrictions on how you may use it.

Author: Steve Kirkendall

E-mail:	kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu

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==================== clarification ================================

From: Steve Kirkendall <skirkendall@uswest.net>
Reply-To: kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Subject: Re: elvis 1.4
Message-ID: <3A21A76D.CE7C4D2@uswest.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:14:37 -0800
Organization: Elvis
References: <20001122144219.A6118@cistron.nl>

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>         I've packaged elvis 1.4 up as "elvis tiny" to have a small
> vi clone for use on bootfloppies etc for the Debian/Linux distribution.
> 
> The README says:
> 
>   Elvis is freely redistributable, in either source form or executable form.
>   There are no restrictions on how you may use it.
> 
> Did you mean that it is allright to distribute modified versions
> without any restrictions as well (I assume so, but someone filed
> a bugreport against the elvis-tiny package claiming it wasn't
> DFSG-free)

Yes, modified versions can be freely redistributed.

Elvis 2.0 was distributed with a slightly more restrictive license,
which made some people uncomfortable; that's probably where the bug
report came from.  Elvis 2.1 and later are distributed under the Perl
"Artistic" license.


