[Nix-dev] Re: Porting NixOS

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

"Daniel Clark" <dclark at pobox.com> writes:

> I'd also like to know if there is any interest amongst the NixOS
> developers to make NixOS a distribution that would be compliant with
> the FSF/GNU Project's Guidelines for Free System Distributions [1] and
> thus recommendable by the Free Software Foundation, and if not if
> there would be any major objections to someone creating a NixOS
> variant that would be (as far as I can tell the Nix package management
> system would make such a fork much less disruptive and able to give
> back to core NixOS than other package management systems).

I for one would be very interested in it.

Currently, Nixpkgs contains a fair amount of non-free software, some of
which gets installed by default.  I would personally like it if we would
gradually separate non-free software from free software in Nixpkgs, so
that users can more easily and clearly choose whether or not they want
to have non-free software installed.

Thanks,
Ludo'.