[OT] Fun with walking package licenses

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Tue Feb 21 18:10:36 UTC 2006


Andy Green wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 

>>Oh, of course, you were escaping the space. But isn't this
> 
> ...
> 
>>grep -v not\ owned
> 
> 
> Nope.

You seem to be deliberately obtuse.

>>You're welcome. It is a better solution, IMO. If the "not
>>owned" string gets changed by the maintainers of rpm,
>>then you'll have to track that. The "--quiet" is unlikely
>>to change, I think, and results in less coupling.
> 
> 
> Well it's the great thing about Free software, you can have
> your version how you like.

Yep, because now its public domain, hence owned by everyone.
Fortunately, you didn't GPL it. :-)

Mike
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