Talk:Nvi

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[edit] Reason for differences.

 "Due to the liberal policy of the BSD license..."

The article states nvi differs arcoss BSDs due to its license. I doubt this is the actual reason. I would guess the real reason is more that primary authors, as the article notes, are not actively maintaining nvi. Without a maintainer to merge in changes from various sources, fragmentation will naturally occur. And, I note, this will occur even if a more restrictive license (but one which still allows creation of derived works), such as the GNU GPL, is used. Of course, this is just conjecture. Not fact. But then, so is the stated reason in the article. I recommend the reason be deleted. Kdz 03:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)