[Nix-dev] nix&bindist

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Hi!

It seems that distributing some packages via hydra violates their licenses 
(e.g., if we distribute a package linked both to gpl and non-gpl-compatible 
libraries).

Gentoo has 'bindist' use flag to mark whether the binary packages will be 
distributed in binary form. What about introducing some variable (say, 
nixpkgs.config.isBuildfarm) to mark that the result of the build is 
available to download? Then packages can assert !isBuildfarm;

In the ideal world we should have some license manager that automatically 
calculates the license of each package but it does not seem trivial to 
implement...
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Yury G. Kudryashov,
mailto: urkud at mccme.ru