From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@hyperbola.info>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there something similar to nix overlays in guix?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:04:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d4fbf43b61450fb984f95bba62c44e8@tobias.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08bd745a-74c1-af03-20af-2458f1001e93@hyperbola.info>
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
Sent from a Web browser. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-11 12:03 UTC|newest]
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2021-03-05 19:20 Is there something similar to nix overlays in guix? Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira
2021-03-11 11:05 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira via
2021-03-11 12:04 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
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