Re: Licenses for Libraries

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On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:34:35AM -0600, Kunkel, Mark wrote:
> We are creating a application which will run on Linux. The question that we
> have is,
> how do we know what licenses we are subject to. In order to determine this,
> I need to know what license governs the usage of the various libraries. So,
> if I know what library I am using, how do I determine what license governs
> its use, and where can I find a copy of the license?

If you know the file name, you can get the package name with:
$ rpm -qf <filename>

Given the package name, you can get the license type:
rpm -q --queryformat "%{NAME} %{LICENSE}\n" <package>

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