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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,alt.suit.att-bsdi Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ira.uka.de!news.dfn.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!news.inesc.pt!dec4pt.puug.pt!matuc2.mat.uc.pt!rps From: rps@matuc2.mat.uc.pt (Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro) Subject: Re: elvis bug Message-ID: <1993May5.150216.5263@matuc2.mat.uc.pt> Keywords: vi Organization: Dep. Matematica Universidade de Coimbra X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3 References: <CONKLIN.93May3154245@ngai.kaleida.com> Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 15:02:16 GMT Lines: 31 conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin) writes: : >>>Why not just use 'vi'? the REAL vi.. im sorry to say so..but to me : >>Because the real 'vi' is copyrighted software, and I don't want to pay : >>AT&T $100K U.S. for a license so I can use the 'Real vi'(tm). : > Hm, in the AT&T editing guide, they remark, that vi is (c) UCBerkeley. : ex, the command line portion of vi, contains bits and pieces of ed, : which is owned by AT&T. We can't get a "real" vi until someone : replaces the AT&T code with a free equivalent. Well, in the BSDI suit the judge has not found evidence (it's diferent to saying that there isn't) that AT&T has a copyright (or trade secrets) in Version 7. So, maybe it's possible to legally distribute the real vi (but dangerous and not very correct, morally speaking). Of course USL deserves it. (I have cross-posted to alt.suit.att-bsdi) -- Rui Salgueiro | Dpt. de Matematica |"It's so easy to laugh rps@matuc2.mat.uc.pt | Universidade de Coimbra | It's so easy to hate rps@inescc.pt | Portugal - Europe | It takes strenght to be gentle " 'He deserves death'. | and kind" - Morrissey 'Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them ? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.' " Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings