This package was debianized by Christoph Lameter clameter@waterf.org on
Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:04:34 -0700. Maintenance has been taken over by Joey
Hess <joeyh@debian.org>.

It was downloaded from http://www.rpm.org/

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.

Perl-RPM has its own copyright:

  This package is Copyright (C) 2000 by Randy J. Ray (rjray@blackperl.com).
  You may distribute this under the terms of Artistic License, as specified in
  the README file of Perl itself. Please see the file ARTISTIC in your
  distribution of Perl.

Popt 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 also includes (but is not built using) a copy of db3, which has
a BSD license (db/LICENSE in the source tree).

(See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL, and 
/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic for the texts of the GPL, LGPL, and
Artistic licenses.)