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Re:Reflections on NixOS by chriswarbo on Monday August 22, 2016 @10:13AM (#12336443)
Regarding licenses, most (all?) packages in the official nixpkgs repo have license metadata, and you can set your configuration to forbid/allow proprietary packages (the "allowUnfree" option), or use a whitelist (e.g. forbid everything except Flash).

Guix is a GNU project, and doesn't allow proprietary packages in their collection at all.

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Re:Reflections on NixOS by lil1729 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:37AM (#12341633)
Yes. But the amount of information in the debian/copyright file is a lot more than just one scalar flag. I think that level of detail on the licenses is extremely important.
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