[3] It is free and open-source software released under v2 or later of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

[4] It was first released by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986,[5] as free software even before the Free Software Foundation, GNU, and the GPL existed.

Edwin normally displays the *scheme* data buffer, the mode line, and the mini-buffer when it starts.

Quote from developer on Savannah (Gnu's forum site):"Originally, there was just one Latin message: moriturus te saluto: "I who am about to die salute you."

It was added by Guillermo Rozas in reference to the phrase morituri te saltamus, "we who are about to die salute you," shouted to the Roman emperor by gladiators before they began to fight in an arena (Wikipedia).