[Nix-dev] Re: Nix wiki - license?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> It’s here: https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nixpkgs/trunk/COPYING .
>> There are several copyright holders (arguably the copyright line in that
>> file is wrong) but the whole thing is under this license.
>
> That wrong copyright line, and we also should decide on whether
> relicensing possible.

The license explicitly grants licensees the right to “sublicense”.  It’s
the X11 license and it can, for instance, be “cast” to a copyleft
license such as the GPL [0].

Thanks,
Ludo’.

[0] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License