On 26-01-2015 15:52:03, Eelco Dolstra wrote: > On 26/01/15 14:19, Matthias Beyer wrote: > > On 26-01-2015 14:00:10, Eelco Dolstra wrote: > >> Hm, I have the impression the license checking code is becoming pretty > >> heavy at > >> this point. For instance, what (realistically) is the use case for > >> whitelisting? > > > > Whitelisting a non-free license. > > Doesn't that also require whitelisting all free licenses used by a > configuration?
No, actually not. I tried to implement it in a way that the allowUnfree setting comes first, whitelisting can be done for the licenses which are not allowed by the allowUnfree settings and so on ... > > >> I actually think we should *remove* meta.license entirely (because it > >> doesn't > >> provide useful info to users and tends to be wrong or incomplete anyway), > >> and > >> replace it with attributes that have operational meaning: > > > > I'm heavily against this. Having the license in the package > > information is (IMHO) the right way to do this. > > > > Removing the license of a package is removing information about the > > package, which I do not consider a good idea at all. You could remove > > the maintainer and version, too, if you remove the license. > > Well, those have an actionable meaning (namely, who to contact regarding > problems in the package, and whether "nix-env -u" should consider a package > newer). OTOH, most users don't care whether a package is licensed under the > 3-clause or 2-clause BSD license. But those who care about the licensing love to have it. And I think it's not a "we have one user for this, so keep it" thing! > > People who do care about the exact license of a package should use a tool like > Ninka do extract the actual license, rather than depend on meta.license > (since, > as I said, it tends to be incomplete or wrong). > What is ninka? Does it work with the Nix package manager? Does it prevent Nix from installing non-free code? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Kind regards, Matthias Beyer Proudly sent with mutt. Happily signed with gnupg.
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