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

[Nicolas Pierron]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 18:49, Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org> wrote:
> Nicolas Pierron
> <nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've just committed a patch which allow you to abort when an unfree /
>> non-free derivation are compiled (even if they are dependencies).
>
> Whether license terms qualify as “free” *cannot* be determined
> automatically in the general case.

What's the point?

That in both cases you have to do it by hand?  I don't see that as
being an argument against this license filter.

-- 
Nicolas Pierron
http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron - http://nbp.name/
If you are doing something twice then you should try to do it once.