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	Unfree software refers to software that has restrictive licensing on modification and/or redistribution. These types of software cannot be freely provided or distributed in an official capacity, which means that they are neither built by [[Hydra]], nor as they cached on the official [[Binary Cache\|binary cache]]. Despite this, Nixpkgs offers a very large collection of unfree software as derivations, however they cannot be ~~accessed~~ by default ~~unless you opt-~~in.		Unfree software refers to software that has restrictive licensing on modification and/or redistribution. These types of software cannot be freely provided or distributed in an official capacity, which means that they are neither built by [[Hydra]], nor as they cached on the official [[Binary Cache\|binary cache]]. Despite this, Nixpkgs offers a very large collection of unfree software as derivations, however they cannot be used by default without configuring Nixpkgs and opting in to unfree software usage.

	== Configuring ==		== Configuring ==