On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Vladimír Čunát vcu...@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/24/2015 12:02 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote:
If you just want to _use_ the software, not modify it, not re-distribute
it, then for a whole lot of packages, you do not have to accept the
license.
I meant that in any
On 02/23/2015 05:40 PM, Thomas Strobel wrote:
So, how should we deal with software that can be downloaded freely,
but where the user has to accept a certain license?
Is the nixpkgs option config.allowUnfree = true; meant exactly for
that cases?
Well, you *always* have to accept the license for
On 02/24/2015 12:02 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote:
If you just want to _use_ the software, not modify it, not re-distribute
it, then for a whole lot of packages, you do not have to accept the license.
I'm no lawyer - it's probably an imprecise formulation on my side:
I meant that in any case
Hi,
On 02/24/2015 10:37 PM, Nicolas Pierron wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Vladimír Čunát vcu...@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/24/2015 12:02 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote:
If you just want to _use_ the software, not modify it, not re-distribute
it, then for a whole lot of packages, you do not
Hi,
On 22/02/15 19:51, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
On 02/22/2015 11:26 AM, Tomasz Kontusz wrote:
Talking about laws: are there any guidelines about what software can go
into nixpkgs/can be distributed by hydra?
I know many distributions try to somehow separate the software illegal
in USA (mostly
Talking about laws: are there any guidelines about what software can go into
nixpkgs/can be distributed by hydra?
I know many distributions try to somehow separate the software illegal in USA
(mostly DRM-related/patented stuff).
Kirill Elagin kirela...@gmail.com napisał:
As far as I understand,
On 02/22/2015 11:26 AM, Tomasz Kontusz wrote:
Talking about laws: are there any guidelines about what software can go
into nixpkgs/can be distributed by hydra?
I know many distributions try to somehow separate the software illegal
in USA (mostly DRM-related/patented stuff).
Basically anything
Hi,
I intend to add an automatic download option for software packages where
the user needs to accept a special license, like for example oraclejdk.
At the moment the nixpkgs build tool points to a specific download page,
and the users have to download the package themselves.
I would like to add
As far as I understand, this is already happening if possible. That is,
once you agree to have packages with unfree licenses, they will be fetched
for you. And will we have to accept licenses one by one or altogether (as
it is happening now) is a separate discussion.
The problem with Oracle JDK
