Re: [bug-gtypist] GTypist 2.9 package

[Felix Natter]

Daniel Leidert <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Montag, den 14.11.2011, 15:38 +0100 schrieb Felix Natter:
>
> [..]
>> #220581 (gtypist: VIM syntax highlighting)
>> => as of ~2000-2003, RMS does not allow/want us to include the        VIM 
>> Syntax
>> highlighting mode in the package. What is the debian policy on this,
>> maybe we should include it in the debian package? Has licencing
>> changed?

hello Daniel,

> What is the problem here? I did not find any information. Is there a
> legal issue? Depending on the answer we can maybe distribute the script
> with a separate source and binary package independent from gtypist. But
> this depends on the specific issue.

I think it was related to this thread:
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/01/msg00000.html

But now...:
  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
=> the vim >= 6.1 licence is said to be GPL-compatible :-)

=> so I think we should add it to the package: I just committed it in
git as tools/gtypist.vim. What remains to be done is to mention this in
the manual, as suggested by Dmitry (I will do this tomorrow or Sunday).
If necessary, we can make a 2.9.1 release (@Tim: what do you think?).

@Tim: could you help test gtypist.vim? On my system,
  autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.typ setf gtypist
must come before "syntax on" - I've changed the note in gtypist.vim
accordingly.

Best Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter