Re: Intel switches from Ubuntu to Fedora for Mobile Linux

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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