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Ouch. Is this at a legal or community level?

• thomastjeffery 9y ago
  Community. There may even be community-based sources for non-free packages, but they are explicitly ignored by the Guix project.
  • hackermailman 9y ago
    Anybody can run guix publish however and self publish their own non-free substitutes if they wanted, plus there's all the existing non-free substitute servers around, and you can try your luck with guix import from nixpkgs. The community won't help anybody if they ask for help with non-free software though. I haven't missed any non-free packages since switching to Guix surprisingly, I always seem to find a free alternative though my daily req are pretty basic.
    • thomastjeffery 9y ago
      > plus there's all the existing non-free substitute servers around Where? > The community won't help anybody if they ask for help with non-free software though. This, specifically, is where Nix has the advantage.