1[](https://opencollective.com/nixos) 2 3Nix, the purely functional package manager 4------------------------------------------ 5 6Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its 7purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't 8appear with Nix. 9 10To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please 11read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at 12<https://nixos.org/nix/manual>. 13 14## Contributing 15 16Take a look at the [Hacking Section](https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#chap-hacking) 17of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source. 18 19## License 20 21Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1 22 23This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for 24use in the [OpenSSL Toolkit](https://www.OpenSSL.org/). 25
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