[Nix-dev] Re: Specifying licenses on Nix packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Lluís Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com> writes:

> There are many free packages, that become non free if used with
> commercial purposes.

If they don’t provide the 4 freedoms, they are not free [0].

It is likely that discriminatory licenses in general are non-free, e.g.,
because they fail to provide Freedom #0, the “freedom to run the
program, for any purpose”.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

[0] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.eo.html