Re: Please release nano under less restrictive license so we can use it
akierig <[email protected]>
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On 2023-04-25 at 14:50 (+00:00) Gur Telem <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > I'm not speaking for the company, just myself and a few other angry users on the internet. > Apple can't use nano because it's licensed as GPLv3 we are stuck in the stone age using Pico. > > If possible to make nano with less restrictive license like MIT or even Apache it would go a long way to help us integrate nano into the system and allow users to get the proper experience with a good and friendly editor (that doesn't attract a bunch of memes of people not being able to exit it). > > > > Gur Telem > [email protected] > +972-52680-3610 > Gur: What's keeping you from installing nano via MacPorts or even homebrew? that 's how I do it on my Macs. MacOS' bundled nano prior to the recent switch to pico was v2.x, IIRC. Not exactly a recent version. cheers, ander