The future of software is Nix: the vision of Determinate, and our effort to unabashedly evolve the Nix ecosystem

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I don’t know that the LGPL comes into the picture given that detsys created an allegedly rust-based impl of the daemon. The main contention I saw was misleading marketing, for example:

Announcing Determinate Nix

Hey Graham, Since this is a declaration of terror against the community version of Nix, I think some words need to be said. Determinate Nix is not a fork of Nix—it is a downstream Nix distribution. We will continue to add new features to Determinate Nix to make the Nix user experience ever smoother for teams. These include better authentication support for flakes and binary caches, flake schemas, parallel evaluation, and much more. This is classic gaslighthing - a manipulation technique …