Hello, Clément Lassieur <clem...@lassieur.org> skribis:
> Indeed 'guix build --source' returns the freed source. However, the > original archive does end up in /gnu/store, and its path in displayed > during the build. (Only if you build from source, without substitutes, etc.) The spirit of the FSDG is that the distro must not provide, recommend, or link to non-free code, and I think Guix is following that to the letter. If you’re knowledgeable about Guix, sure you can find your way to the original tarball that includes non-free bits. But then, you can do that more easily anyway: search for the package on the Web and you’re done. For the record, this issue was discussed in the early days of Guix and I don’t think anything has changed since then. The current behavior of ‘guix build --source’ stems from those discussions (that was ca. 2015, but I can’t find the links now). Thanks, Ludo’.
