This package was originally maintained by Christoph Lameter
<clameter@waterf.org> and then by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>.
It is now maintained by Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>.

It was downloaded from http://www.rpm.org/ or
ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/

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.

Beecrypt (whose source tree is also included in rpm's source) has the
following copyright:

  Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Virtual Unlimited B.V.

  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
  Lesser General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

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.
