Elixir license in Nixpkgs is wrong?

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Hi, I noticed that the license for Elixir lang in Nixpkgs (master) and associated versions is Eclipse Public license, but Elixir and OTP are both Apache 2.0 (elixir and OTP as of OTP 18 (2015). It seems there was some confusion between the Erlang Public License and Eclipse Public License: licenses.epl10 in Nixpkgs is for Eclipse, not Erlang.

Given that we no longer support versions of Elixir with the Erlang Public License (minimum OTP version is 23 > 18), is there any issue with updating the license to Apache 2.0 for all Elixir interpreter expressions in Nixpkgs? lmk if i’m missing something.

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Maybe make a (preliminary) pull request for this and have discussion in there? The .meta.maintainers perhaps will get even alerted automatically. If not, I’d suggest to mention them manually.

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thanks @vcunat , opened here.

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