| 18 Sep 2024 |
 emily | building and redistributing unfreeRedistributable is already a minefield given the various complex use restrictions many of those licences have, but doing it for unfree is a terrible idea | 13:10:58 |
| emily | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
right. maybe related to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/342529 https://github.com/numtide/nixpkgs-unfree ? indeed related https://hydra.nix-community.org/jobset/nixpkgs/unfree#tabs-configuration | 13:11:38 |
 Kamilla 'ova | last time I checked nixpkgs-unfree (~1 year ago) aseprite was not in their cache | 13:11:44 |
| emily | which is confusing given zimbatm's statement of "our intent here is not to redistribute" | 13:11:50 |
| Kamilla 'ova | I think this is related to https://github.com/nix-community/infra/pull/1406 | 13:12:09 |
| Kamilla 'ova | in my opinion, building all unfree packages is good, but publishing them in a public cache is bad | 13:13:22 |
| emily | posted https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/342529#issuecomment-2358438965 | 13:13:48 |
| emily | In reply to @kamillaova:matrix.org
in my opinion, building all unfree packages is good, but publishing them in a public cache is bad for unfreeRedistributable it seems like a good idea if someone is willing to take on the risk. unfortunately lib.licenses.unfree often means "impossible to build without committing a copyright violation"; we have it overloaded with a hypothetical lib.licenses.illegal | 13:14:24 |
| emily | so it's a quite significant risk to do it for lib.licenses.unfree even in the absence of redistribution | 13:14:36 |
| Kamilla 'ova | I think adding redistributableOnly option to release-unfree.nix will be fine | 13:14:38 |
| Kamilla 'ova | In reply to@emilazy:matrix.org
posted https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/342529#issuecomment-2358438965 via Cachix
I think hydra.nix-community.org also provides a way to download the output but it throws an exception inside the hydra code (https://matrix.to/#/#nix-community:nixos.org/$I6ODgqJ-1MNHvgq_lBx2AtpUA-q2p1llHYHAyMzKlGg) | 13:18:46 |
| Kamilla 'ova | via Cachix
I think hydra.nix-community.org also provides a way to download the output but it throws an exception inside the hydra code (https://matrix.to/#/#nix-community:nixos.org/$I6ODgqJ-1MNHvgq_lBx2AtpUA-q2p1llHYHAyMzKlGg) | 13:18:57 |
| emily | right. well "via Cachix" is more concerning because it means that we're also inducing Cachix into copyright violations, which they presumably wouldn't be happy about :) | 13:19:29 |
 Mic92 | Isn't cachix just a provider in this case? | 17:03:25 |
