[Nix-dev] Store nixpkgs licenses as JSON instead of .nix

[Freddy Rietdijk]

Hi Nixers,

The licenses that are used in nixpkgs are specified in .nix format.
While it is possible to use builtins.toJSON to convert to JSON on-demand, I
propose that we store the licenses in JSON format instead, separating the
data from code.

A practical use case is that I would like to match (using Python) raw
license information to the licenses we have in nixpkgs. I don't want to
depend on the user having Nix available (just the nixpkgs repository) to
convert libraries.nix to JSON.

That is my argumentation. What do you think?

Kind regards,

Freddy Rietdijk
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