[Nix-dev] Packaging free software that costs money

[Profpatsch]

On 16-07-07 01:18am, Jookia wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 04:35:51PM +0200, Moritz Ulrich wrote:
> Is it really Nix's job to enforcing the business models of software, rather than
> just packaging it? Surely the application could just have a nag screen (if it
> doesn't already.)

How about we check whether the NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNPAID variables (good name?) is set
and supress the abortion in that case? Same as with NIXPKGS_ALLLOW_UNFREE.

env NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNPAID=1 nix-shell -p ardour --run ardour


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