On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Feizhou wrote:

Ugo Bellavance wrote:

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Hi,

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?

rpm -qi packagename

And if you want to see just the name and the license

rpm -q --queryformat "%{name}\t%{license}\n" packagename

And if you want to see it for everything installed

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name}\t%{license}\n"

Look for what comes after License:

...

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.

Thanks,

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-Connie Sieh

Feizhou wrote:

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And if you want to see just the name and the license rpm -q --queryformat "%{name}\t%{license}\n" packagename

And if you want to see it for everything installed

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name}\t%{license}\n"

Thanks Connie.

Thanks all. A lot easier this way, :)