[Nix-dev] Separating free and non-free packages, again

[Nicolas Pierron]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 17:18, Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nicolas Pierron wrote:
>
>> So you just want a tool to retrieve meta.licence attributes for a
>> specified derivation.
>
> No, since you left out this part:
>
> "- Even if every package has a meta.license attribute, it doesn't give you the
> ability to phyiscally remove the expressions from tree (though I personally find
> that less important)."

I've just committed a patch which allow you to abort when an unfree /
non-free derivation are compiled (even if they are dependencies).

I hope this would give more interest in using the license field and
reassure gnu-addicted persons.

-- 
Nicolas Pierron
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