[Nix-dev] Specifying licenses on Nix packages

[Marc Weber]

> What do you guys think about these notations and conventions? I know this will take some work/effort in implementing it, but I think this is worth the effort and by using this approach we can build a mechanism that automatically verifies/builds a system configuration that conforms to a policy a user wants (e.g. if a user only wants to use free software, we can verify this and so on).

It sounds sound. I'm not missing anything.

Sometimes I don't have time to do a lot of research about which license
is used. In fact when seeing "GLP" It think it's fine and stop thinking
about it. Do you want to require these settings? If so will this lead to
two repositiories eg nixpkgs-approved-licenses and nixpkgs-dev or
nixpkgs-unofficial ?

Go on with your proposal. I just raise the question whether this
policy should be enforced to all packages.

Marc Weber