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

[Thomas Strobel]

Hi,

On 02/24/2015 10:37 PM, Nicolas Pierron wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 02/24/2015 12:02 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote:
>>> If you just want to _use_ the software, not modify it, not re-distribute
>>> it, then for a whole lot of packages, you do not have to accept the
>>> license.
>> I meant that in any case you're required to conform to the license terms
>> (whether that means some act of "accepting" it or not).
> Which raise a good point, what does "allowUnfree = true;" means.
> Does that mean that you read the licenses of all software, and that
> you do *agree with all* of them?
>
> Should we do something like "allowLicenses = [ pkgs.licenses.adobeEULA
> ];" instead?
>

Just to follow up part of the cause of the discussion, Oracle JDKs 7/8
download with fetchurl now, [1].

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/6557