[Nix-dev] meta.license

[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan]

Hi Ertugrul,

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014, at 06:26 PM, Ertugrul Söylemez wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:17:33 +0530
> Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <ram at rkrishnan.org> wrote:
> 
> > Is there some to specify a custom license? Reason why I ask is this: I
> > had been looking at plan9port, which I use on all my machines, off late.
> > I have some fixes in a pull request at the moment. plan9port nix
> > expression file specifies meta.license="free". In reality it is a bit
> > complicated [1]. Part of it is BSD-like and some of the fonts have a
> > slightly different license notice [2].
> 
> Licenses are just attribute sets in Nix.  If a license is common enough
> you can put it into <nixpkgs/lib/licenses.nix>, but if it is
> sufficiently package-specific there is nothing wrong with writing it
> inline.  You only need to invent a name for it and maybe put it
> somewhere online.

Ah, thank you. I guess the lucent licenses are not very popular. But may
be I will send a patch to add them into the licenses.nix file.

-- 
  Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan