GNU Guix is consists of Scheme code that implements the deployment model of the Nix package management tool. In fact, it currently talks to a build daemon whose code comes from Nix (see the manual for details.) Nix was initially written by Eelco Dolstra; other people have been contributing to it. See `nix/AUTHORS' for details. GNU Guix was initiated by Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>, but it would not be what it is without the contributions of the following people (in alphabetical order): Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com> Mark H. Weaver <mhw@netris.org>