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nvidia-x11: change meta.license from "unfree" to "proprietary"

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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
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@ -50,6 +50,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
meta = { meta = {
homepage = http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html; homepage = http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html;
description = "X.org driver and kernel module for NVIDIA graphics cards"; description = "X.org driver and kernel module for NVIDIA graphics cards";
license = "unfree"; license = stdenv.lib.licenses.proprietary;
}; };
} }