Hi, On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 18:53, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]> wrote: > Nicolas Pierron wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 14:20, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]> wrote: >>> A while back we had a discussion about separating free and non-free >>> packages in >>> Nixpkgs. The main motivation is that it allows people to make completely >>> free >>> Nixpkgs / NixOS installations. For instance, last week at the GNU Hackers >>> Meeting we discussed doing continuous integration builds of the various GNU >>> packages. Obviously, you don't want an accidental dependency on a non-free >>> package in such builds. >>> >>> After talking with Ludovic at the GHM, we came up with the following plan: >>> >>> - Create a directory pkgs/non-free. >> >> This information seems to be redundant because the license should give >> you such information. Such separation is similar as duplicating the >> license terms, first in the Nix expression, second in the directory. > > Yes. However: > > - Currently most (free) packages lack a meta.license attribute. > > - We don't actually have a tool to check a dependency graph's meta.license > attributes yet. > > So it seems a lot simpler, especially in the short term, to move the few > non-free packages to a separate directory.
So you just want a tool to retrieve meta.licence attributes for a specified derivation. Don't mind If I give it a try? -- Nicolas Pierron http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron - http://nbp.name/ Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Never underestimate the bandwith of a wagon full of tapes. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
