[Nix-dev] Re: Porting NixOS

[Isaac Dupree]

Marc Weber wrote:
>> Hmm, why would you want to mark software like that? For example, if I as
>> a user want to install Skype, I just want to have it installed. What use
>> is it for me if the system first says: "Sorry, Dave, can't do that. You
>> first need to sign with your blood that you are not a true open source
>> extremist"?
> Hi Arie, 
> what about a setting allow_non_free_packages=true; in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix ?

not sufficient for me; I like the *consciousness* aspect. 
So I'm currently running my Linux system with MadWiFi, which 
is non-free, but I don't wish to allow other non-free 
packages (unless, again, I explicitly do allow them).  And 
some non-free-ness is worse than others (e.g. unlimited 
redistribution but no modification; or somehow 
"noncommercial" which I don't understand but interpret as 
not to worry about if you're doing things small-scale enough 
that no one will care to sue you; or the Vista EULA, which 
is so bad that it's possibly illegal/unenforcible).  Maybe 
what we need is a *function* of what packages to allow 
(allow_packages = (function from package-metadata to 
boolean))...

-Isaac