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RPM

RPM is the open-source RPM Package Manager used to build, install, update, query and verify software packages on Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE and other Linux distributions. It is licensed under the GPL version 2 or later, with the 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; the source code in the lib and rpmio subdirectories is licensed GPL-2.0-or-later OR LGPL-2.1-or-later.[1]

  2. The LGPL alternative for the lib and rpmio code is provided so that applications can link against the RPM library (librpm) without having to be distributed under the GPL.[2]

  3. RPM is a core component of Linux distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE and CentOS, and the RPM format is part of the Linux Standard Base.[3]

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References

  1. rpm.org - About · rpm.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. RPM COPYING · raw.githubusercontent.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. rpm.org - About · rpm.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
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