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author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2006-04-25 16:50:34 +0000 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2006-04-25 16:50:34 +0000 |
commit | 6b0b4586945e3531a04561f4fcffd7e5f666513d (patch) | |
tree | 8bfc9a2e678e28e17275cc18b6e215098e004124 /COPYING | |
parent | fd2d743748ae9affca3228c317b4ea208b1b860c (diff) |
* Applying an MIT-style license to Nixpkgs.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=5215
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diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..919d1e25bbe9 --- /dev/null +++ b/COPYING @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Copyright (c) 2003-2006 Eelco Dolstra + +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining +a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the +"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including +without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, +distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to +permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to +the following conditions: + +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be +included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. + +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, +EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF +MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND +NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE +LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION +OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION +WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. + +====================================================================== + +Note: the license above does not apply to the packages built by the +Nix Packages collection, merely to the package descriptions (i.e., Nix +expressions, build scripts, etc.). Also, the license does not apply +to some of the binaries used for bootstrapping Nixpkgs (e.g., +pkgs/stdenv/linux/tools/bash). It also might not apply to patches +included in Nixpkgs, which may be derivative works of the packages to +which they apply. The aforementioned artifacts are all covered by the +licenses of the respective packages. |