From c0e0604c4dc0d415517e9a648b482cc0b6f7483e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Simons Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:58:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] nvidia-x11: change meta.license from "unfree" to "proprietary" I'm not entirely sure what the appropriate license attribute for this package is. The license [1] says: | 2.1.2 Linux/FreeBSD Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of | Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux or | FreeBSD operating systems, or other operating systems derived from | the source code to these operating systems, may be copied and | redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not | modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files). It sounds to me like this gives NixOS the right to re-distribute the files (because we don't modify them). The 'proprietary' license sort-of fits that. On the other hand, we seem to assume that proprietary software cannot be redistributed, which doesn't apply here. [1] http://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/licence.php?lang=us --- pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/default.nix | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/default.nix index c965ef01c72b..829e68698c67 100644 --- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/default.nix @@ -50,6 +50,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { meta = { homepage = http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html; description = "X.org driver and kernel module for NVIDIA graphics cards"; - license = "unfree"; + license = stdenv.lib.licenses.proprietary; }; }