Hello, I asked to about a license of rpm several months ago. There is a customer hesitating about using rpm for distribution of their proprietary software because this does not become clear. I asked same question to tec support of RH about this but I could not get clear answer. Because the engineer who developed it seemed to have already leave for another job. For the request of the customer, I ask it here once again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- According to COPYING file (rpm-4.3.3-6.0.7.1100783.src.rpm), under lib subdirectory of RPM source code can distribute LGPL. -< rpm-4.3.3/COPYING >--------------------------------------------------- ... The entire code base may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), which appears immediately below. Alternatively, all of the source code in the lib subdirectory of the RPM source code distribution as well as any code derived from that code may instead be distributed under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL), at the choice of the distributor. ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- But, the source code of librpmdb.so and librpmio.so are not under lib subdirectory of RPM source code like following. # pwd /work/RPM/rpm-4.3.3 # ls -l ... drwxr-xr-x 2 10050 510 4096 Feb 1 2005 lib <-- lib subdirectory ... drwxr-xr-x 2 10050 510 4096 Feb 1 2005 rpmdb <-- separate directory drwxr-xr-x 2 10050 510 4096 Feb 1 2005 rpmio <-- separate directory /usr/lib/librpmdb.so and /usr/lib/librpmio.so are shared library, so I suppose that these licenses are LGPL. I checked under rpmdb and rpmio directory, but I couldn't find any documentation or comment for license. The question is, the license of librpmdb.so / librpmio.so are LGPL? Thanks in advance. -- Hiroyuki Iizaka _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
