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+Nix, the purely functional package manager
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+Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of it's
+purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't
+appear with Nix.
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+To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please
+read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at
+<http://nixos.org/nix/manual>.
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+## License
+
+Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1
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+This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for
+use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.OpenSSL.org/).