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authorMatthew Bauer <mjbauer95@gmail.com>2018-10-13 16:42:34 -0500
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-10-13 16:42:34 -0500
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Merge pull request #48320 from transumption/201810/move-notice-to-readme
COPYING: move notice to README.md
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@@ -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.