lix/README.md
Jade Lovelace 5137cea990 README: clarify license to match documentation
For years both the documentation and nixpkgs have said that CppNix is
LGPL-2.1-or-later, not LGPL-2.1-only as is somewhat implied by the
README. We are choosing to update the README to match the rest of the
references.

Related: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5218
Change-Id: I6a765ae7857a2f84872f80a25983c4c4b2b3b1c1
2024-08-10 16:11:58 -07:00

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Lix

Lix is an implementation of Nix, a powerful package management system for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.

Read more about us at https://lix.systems.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Lix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -sSf -L https://install.lix.systems/lix | sh -s -- install

For systems that already have a Nix implementation installed, such as NixOS systems, read our install page

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to to set up a development environment and build Lix from source.

Additional Resources

License

Lix is released under LGPL-2.1-or-later.