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maxx: license fixups
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The main thing is that I'm convinced the license can't be free when it
restricts redistribution to certain platforms.  That probably holds with
the usual definitions like from Debian, FSF or OSI.
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vcunat committed Sep 4, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -82,8 +82,9 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
description = "A replica of IRIX Interactive Desktop";
homepage = http://www.maxxinteractive.com;
license = {
fullName = "The MaXX Interactive Desktop for Linux License Agreement";
url = http://www.maxxinteractive.com/site/?page_id=97;
free = true;
free = false; # redistribution is only allowed to *some* hardware, etc.
};
maintainers = [ maintainers.gnidorah ];
platforms = ["x86_64-linux"];
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"free as beer" formulation is actually a red flag to me, as that's the typical contrast to "free as freedom" which is what our license.free is about.

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The main disadvantage is that currently the build farm won't build unfree packages, so you won't have binaries available, get notification on failures; it also won't be visible in package listings by default, etc.

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