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RPM Package Manager

RPM Package Manager is the open-source package management system used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, SUSE and other Linux distributions. It is free software under GPL-2.0-or-later, with its librpm library code also available under the LGPL.

Licensing at a Glance

  • Open source

  1. RPM is free software released under the GPL-2.0-or-later.[1]

  2. Source code in the lib and rpmio subdirectories may alternatively be distributed under the LGPL, so that applications can link against librpm without being distributed under the GPL.[2]

  3. In SPDX terms the COPYING file gives the whole code base as GPL-2.0-or-later, with lib and rpmio code optionally LGPL-2.0-or-later; the project's About page describes that option as LGPL-2.1-or-later.[3]

  4. RPM is a core component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, CentOS and other distributions, and the RPM format is part of the Linux Standard Base.[4]

Products

References

  1. rpm.org - About · rpm.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. rpm/COPYING at master · rpm-software-management/rpm · GitHub · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. rpm/COPYING at master · rpm-software-management/rpm · GitHub · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. rpm.org - About · rpm.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
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