[Ilugc] Intel switches from Ubuntu to Fedora for Mobile Linux
- From: sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
- Date: Fri Jul 25 07:33:17 2008
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
Hello,
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hohndel pointed out that RPM packages
include licence information; the DEB package management as used by
Ubuntu and Debian doesn't have this information in the package files.
Not wanting to start a flame-war or anything ;-) ...
Any Debian package contains "/usr/share/doc/<pkgname>/copyright"
which contains the copyright info.
Perhaps RPM has some way this information can be directly displayed using
rpm some_option pkgname.rpm
_without_ installing the package.
RPM has the licensing information in the metadata so you can use tools
to gather that information in a consistent machine readable fashion
which you cannot do by merely reading a copyright license (that makes
the difference between identifying whether a particular software package
is under the GPLv2 license or GPLv2 or later licensing for instance).
For example,
# yum info worldofpadman
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
Name : worldofpadman
Arch : i386
Version : 1.34
Release : 0.9.rc4.fc9
Size : 11 k
Repo : fedora
Summary : World Of Padman - Comic 3D-Shooter
URL :
http://padworld.myexp.de/
License : GPLv2+
Description: World of Padman (WoP) is a first-person shooter...
The License tag here indicates clearly that this is under the GPLv2 or
later license. For additional details, refer
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
Rahul
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