From ef54c618dc7af978e875704b0142d3d1e8b96f29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yegor Timoshenko Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:22:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] COPYING: move notice to README.md --- COPYING | 9 --------- README.md | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index 198597a1b410..7c52fb768978 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -18,12 +18,3 @@ 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.). 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. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 144a23027db9..278ef66cf7e8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -39,3 +39,9 @@ Communication: * [Discourse Forum](https://discourse.nixos.org/) * [IRC - #nixos on freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.net/#nixos) + +Note: MIT license does not apply to the packages built by Nixpkgs, merely to +the package descriptions (Nix expressions, build scripts, and so on). 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.