On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 14:16, Tony White <[email protected]> wrote: > That's cool but I think that following the gnu guidelines and ideas of > freedom strictly is how to get nixos classified as a gnu distribution > like gnewsense is. > It has to be strict if you guys want the classification. See here : > http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html > and here for the pitfalls : > http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html > So if you want nixos added here : > http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html > The non-free stuff has got to be forked away and hosted somewhere else > and the kernel's firmware blobs need to be removed. > (Put non-free nixpkgs on gitorious and move to git would be the best way IMO.) >
from http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html : > A free system distribution must not steer users towards obtaining any nonfree > information for practical use, or encourage them to do so. *** There should > be no repositories or ports for nonfree software. *** Programs in the system > should not suggest installing nonfree plugins, documentation, and so on. Even forking non-free packages seems to be refused by these guilde-lines. For practical use I suggest to filter out all packages which does not match the *** user defined *** license predicate. Such predicate avoid confusion of the freeness terms: free to use or 4 freedoms ? This will avoid creating directories for each category, which is still not admitted by the previous guide-lines and not maintainable. In addition this implies that you cannot install something which does not respect your own license predicate. -- Nicolas Pierron http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron - http://nbp.name/ Donald Knuth - I can't go to a restaurant because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
