[CentOS] Licences

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 07.12.2005 schrieb Ugo Bellavance um 17:25:

> 	I'm looking for a way to determine the licenses of packages we're using.
> 
> 	Is there a command (rpm, yum, up2date...) that will take the package 
> name as argument and return me the licence?
> 
> 	Or is everything included with Centos 4 GPL?  That is the only licence 
> I found in the repositories...  I remember that RH had the habit of 
> putting all the applicable licences on the distros' CD.


rpm -q --qf '%{LICENSE}' <packagename>

rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME} is licensed under %{LICENSE}\n' | sort

Alexander


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