[Nix-dev] Re: Current stdenv is Broken in Absence of Substitutors

[Shea Levy]

On 09/06/2011 04:16 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Shea Levy<shea at shealevy.com>  skribis:
>
>> According to my reading of the two threads, nixos.org can be
>> considered in violation of the GPL by hosting the binutils sources on
>> its servers. Is that understanding correct?
> I think so, yes.
>
> OTOH, erasing history is a no-go for Nixpkgs...
>
> Ludo'.
>
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 From my understanding, the sources aren't saved in nixpkgs, they're 
just on a nixos.org server somewhere. So if this is a significant issue 
we can just remove that tarball and change the url in nixpkgs... Unless 
providing a method to download a file hosted elsewhere could itself 
violate the GPL, in which case we'll have to update binutils.

~Shea