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 * [Discourse Forum](https://discourse.nixos.org/)
 * [IRC - #nixos on freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.net/#nixos)
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+Note: MIT license does not apply to the packages built by Nixpkgs, merely to
+the package descriptions (Nix expressions, build scripts, and so on). It also
+might not apply to patches included in Nixpkgs, which may be derivative works
+of the packages to which they apply. The aforementioned artifacts are all
+covered by the licenses of the respective packages.