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

[Luca Bruno]

I think that code is so simple that with a small transformation it's json,
without using libnix.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Arseniy Seroka <ars.seroka at gmail.com>
wrote:

> All licenses that we have are here [1].
>
> [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/licenses.nix
>
> 2015-12-12 13:42 GMT+03:00 Freddy Rietdijk <freddyrietdijk at fridh.nl>:
>
>> 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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