The proton-pass-cli is marked as unfree
fi
for platform in ${lib.escapeShellArgs finalAttrs.meta.platforms}; do
update-source-version "proton-pass-cli" "$NEW_VERSION" --ignore-same-version --source-key="sources.$platform"
done
'';
};
meta = {
description = "Command-line interface for managing your Proton Pass vaults, items, and secrets";
homepage = "https://github.com/protonpass/pass-cli";
license = lib.licenses.unfree;
mainProgram = "pass-cli";
maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ delafthi ];
platforms = lib.attrNames finalAttrs.passthru.sources;
sourceProvenance = with lib.sourceTypes; [ binaryNativeCode ];
};
})
But the distribution is licensed as GPL
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 3, 29 June 2007
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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Why is it not built from source and licensed as GPL?
NobbZ
June 11, 2026, 6:32am
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Back when the derivation was created based on version 1.3.2 there was no license file in the repo and no license mentioned in the Cargo.toml.
So unfree is the only valid option. Most legislatives assume that without an explicit license you are not allowed to do anything with it. So unfree is a good approximation.
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