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 DRM-related/patented stuff). > > Basically anything is accepted in nixpkgs, even non-redistributable stuff as > you > see (why else requireFile). FWIW, I'm fairly strongly against inclusion of any package that cannot be installed automatically, i.e., anything that uses requireFile. The reason being that if a package shows up in "nix-env -qa", then "nix-env -i <package>" should Just Work. There are some unfortunate historic exceptions (like the Oracle JDK) but we should try not to proliferate them. We probably also shouldn't include packages that require obtaining a license key or something similar. I.e. packages should be usable by everybody. -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
