On 25/06/14 12:46, Louis Bettens wrote: > This makes me wonder what /free/ means.
We should clarify this in the docs, but I would say "free" according to https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html or http://opensource.org/docs/osd. > Bonus question : Is http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-meta-license > deprecated ? No, but I've been wondering if it should be replaced by attributes with an operational meaning, such as meta.free = <boolean> and meta.redistributable = <boolean>. Meta.license is not really useful to users, is often missing, incomplete or incorrect, and is not expressive enough (e.g. it cannot express if parts of a package are under a different license). If you really need to know the licenses of a set of packages, you're better off using a tool like Ninka [1]. [1] http://ninka.turingmachine.org/ -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
