[Nix-dev] Re: Separating Free/non-free package

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

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

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> To achieve a separation of Free (per
>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) and non-free packages in
>> Nixpkgs, I’m considering splitting ‘all-packages.nix’ in 3 files such
>> that:
>>
>>   gnu-packages.nix ⊆ free-packages.nix ⊆ all-packages.nix
>
> I don't get the first step. First part is per-vendor, not per-freedom.
> The mere fact that the package is a GNU one, doesn't mean it is more or
> less free than any other package with an OSI-approved license.

I’m not referring to OSI, I’m referring to FSF’s definition (see above).

[...]

> If you want to comply with GNU guidelines for "Fully Free
> Distributions", say so explicitly.

That could be the next step, but I’m not there yet.  For now I just want
to be able to distinguish 4-freedom-free packages from others.

Thanks,
Ludo’.