Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello, > > "Daniel Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd also like to know if there is any interest amongst the NixOS >> developers to make NixOS a distribution that would be compliant with >> the FSF/GNU Project's Guidelines for Free System Distributions [1] and >> thus recommendable by the Free Software Foundation, and if not if >> there would be any major objections to someone creating a NixOS >> variant that would be (as far as I can tell the Nix package management >> system would make such a fork much less disruptive and able to give >> back to core NixOS than other package management systems). > > I for one would be very interested in it. > > Currently, Nixpkgs contains a fair amount of non-free software, some of > which gets installed by default. I would personally like it if we would > gradually separate non-free software from free software in Nixpkgs, so > that users can more easily and clearly choose whether or not they want > to have non-free software installed.
Hmm, why would you want to mark software like that? For example, if I as a user want to install Skype, I just want to have it installed. What use is it for me if the system first says: "Sorry, Dave, can't do that. You first need to sign with your blood that you are not a true open source extremist"? Even worse, with Gentoo, you nowadays have to download closed binaries manually ... Cheers, Arie _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
