Re: [Groff] bug in macro '.IR' (was ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages).

[Ingo Schwarze]

Hi John,

John Gardner wrote on Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:14:55PM +1000:

> ISC forever!

Well, kind of "no" in the present context.

While i do personally prefer the ISC license for software that
i write myself, i also fully respect James Clark's decision to
publish groff under the GPL, and i do acknowledge that the FSF
owns groff and is free to define policies for it.

So, promoting the ISC license, no matter whether it may or may not
be laudable in general, is not a very efficient way to help the
groff project, and the list <address@hidden> is arguably not the
ideal place for such advocacy.

While it is useful to remain aware that it is harder for a core
GNU project to gain developers than for an ISC-based project,
the task *here* is to bring in developers for groff all the same.

Yours,
  Ingo