How to un-Caldera my box

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 16 May 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2003 02:19 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > > On Thursday 15 May 2003 02:57 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 15 May 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> <snip>
> > > I hate to spend a vast amount of
> > > unproductive time building what will be essentially Linux From
> > > Scratch just to purge SCO from the box.
> >
> > In that case, let the license  be your guide.  There is a license
> > field for every installed RPM (see the output from 'rpm -qip f00').
> > If you whip up a simple shell script to grep all the license fields,
> > you can see if there are any that have restrictive licenses (non-GPL
> > etc).
>
> Interesting; I like that.  I think I'll try it if for no other reason
> than to see how it works.
> For 'license', do you mean 'copyright' ?
> I see this field in the list of info I get when I command
>  rpm -qi blahblah
> but not 'license'.

No, there should be a License field in the output from 'rpm -qip f00'.

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