[Nix-dev] Automatic download option for "requireFile"

[Kirill Elagin]

As far as I understand, this is already happening if possible. That is,
once you agree to have packages with unfree licenses, they will be fetched
for you. And will we have to accept licenses one by one or altogether (as
it is happening now) is a separate discussion.
The problem with Oracle JDK and similar software is that the user is
required to accept the license specifically on their web site. Doing what
you propose would probably be illegal (otherwise other distros would have
implemented this, right?), so it might be a good idea to consult lawyers
first ;).

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015, 18:00 Thomas Strobel <ts468 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I intend to add an automatic download option for software packages where
> the user needs to accept a special license, like for example oraclejdk.
> At the moment the nixpkgs build tool points to a specific download page,
> and the users have to download the package themselves.
> I would like to add the possibility to accept the package specific
> license in the general nixpkgs config, e.g., with
> "config.license.oraclejdk.accept=true;" in the user's nixpkgs
> configuration, and then have the build tool downloading the package
> directly.
>
> Before I go ahead and implement it, what do you think about it?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
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