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Re: Is there something similar to nix overlays in guix?
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice |
Subject: |
Re: Is there something similar to nix overlays in guix? |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:04:15 +0100 |
Hi!
On 2021-03-11 12:05, Adonay Felipe Nogueira via wrote:
I don't know the specifics of the non-free software Nix
Nix is completely Free software, released under the Lesser GNU General
Public Licence version 2.1. So is nixpkgs, its official MIT-licenced
collection of package definitions. (Guix combines both concepts into
one repository.)
You might be confusing 'non-free' with 'does not follow GNU's Free
Software Distribution Guidelines' (FSDG), a much stricter set of
additional rules that dictate what every single installable package is
allowed to be and do.
Nix/nixpkgs/NixOS have not opted to follow these unrelated rules; GNU
Guix have. Both projects are Free software.
Both must therefore grant you the freedom to run non-free software; Nix
makes this more convenient.
Kind regards,
T G-R
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