On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Feizhou wrote:
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > 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,
>
> Not everything is GPL.
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-Connie Sieh