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Re:Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim by benatkin on Sunday May 19, 2013 @04:00PM (#5734185)
It's a bummer, but it isn't the CoVim authors' fault that the Gobby developers chose irrelevance. http://git.0x539.de/?p=infinote.git;a=blob;f=COPYING;h=b124c...
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Re:Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim by codys on Sunday May 19, 2013 @05:06PM (#5734386)
I don't understand. You've linked to a copy of the LGPLv2.1 in infininote's git repo. Are you saying that their choice of licence primarily caused their product to be less popular?
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Re:Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim by benatkin on Sunday May 19, 2013 @05:47PM (#5734534)
No, I'm saying that it precludes it from being an obvious choice for a standard, since implementing that type of protocol isn't simple and there are editor writers who don't want to integrate LGPL code.
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Re:Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim by qu4z-2 on Sunday May 19, 2013 @07:40PM (#5734919)
Surely if it's LGPL you can just link against it, no?
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