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Re: Idea: Install script to better support improving contributor-friendl


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: Re: Idea: Install script to better support improving contributor-friendliness of projects
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:34:30 -0500
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:43:49PM +0300, address@hidden wrote:
> Another question, is Guix ever going to ship NVIDIA OpenGL libraries,
> considering that this is a GNU project? Flatpak for example ships them
> to support NVIDIA GPUs. The project I want to make contributor-friendly 
> with help of Guix is a 3D game, so without them Guix is essentially
> useless as a dependency installer for many of the potential
> contributors.

Are those libraries free software?

If not, no, we'll never include them in GNU Guix.

But Guix is free software, which means one can use it however they like.
So there is nothing stopping someone from packaging nonfree software and
distributing the packages on their own.

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