This package was originally maintained by Christoph Lameter and then by Joey Hess . It is now maintained by Anibal Monsalve Salazar . It was downloaded from : http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/SRPMS/rpm-4.4.1-21.src.rpm RPM is Copyright (C) 1998-2000 - Red Hat, Inc. RPM and its source code are covered under two separate licenses. 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. The complete text of the LGPL appears at the bottom of this file. This alternatively is allowed to enable applications to be linked against the RPM library (commonly called librpm) without forcing such applications to be distributed under the GPL. Any questions regarding the licensing of RPM should be addressed to marc@redhat.com and ewt@redhat.com. Popt (whose source tree is included in rpm's source) has the following copyright: Copyright (c) 1998 Red Hat Software Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE X CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. Except as contained in this notice, the name of the X Consortium shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the X Consortium. The rpm source tree also includes a copy of db4, which has a BSD license, and a copy of Perl-RPM, which is licenced under the Artistic liscense. Nothing from those trees is included in the binary packages, however. See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL for the texts of the GPL and LGPL licenses.