On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 05:02:54PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > >I have two questions. First: > > > >Assume you have a FreeBSD system installed that has been running for > >at > >least a year, with a bunch of graphical desktop and productivity > >software > >installed, and have both installed and uninstalled a lot of software > >over > >that time. Now imagine that you want to know whether a given > >utility was > >something that came with the base system or was installed by some > >port or > >package later on. What's the easiest way to do that (preferably > >without > >installing the FreeBSD base system on a computer and checking > >whether the > >utility is present)? > > Run "pkg_which" on the name of the file, and it will tell you which > port that file comes from. Otherwise, the file is part of the base > system, or created by a user.
Thanks. That's another good suggestion. > > >Second: > > > >Where can I get a list of all licenses on all software in the base > >system? I know there's at least the BSD License, the GPL, and the > >LGPL, > >but I'm a little hazy on what else is in there. > > There are dozens of variants of the BSD License, and the closely > related Zlib/PNG license; there are also MIT, GPL, LGPL, a bit of > Sun's SISSL or CDDL, and probably other licenses present. A decent > starting point is: > > % locate LICENSE > [ ... ] > /usr/src/contrib/bzip2/LICENSE > /usr/src/contrib/groff/LICENSE > /usr/src/contrib/ipfilter/perl/LICENSE > /usr/src/contrib/less/LICENSE > /usr/src/contrib/libpcap/LICENSE > /usr/src/contrib/nvi/LICENSE > /usr/src/contrib/openbsm/LICENSE > /usr/src/contrib/openpam/LICENSE > /usr/src/contrib/pam_modules/pam_passwdqc/LICENSE > /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/LICENSE > /usr/src/contrib/tcpdump/LICENSE > /usr/src/crypto/openssl/LICENSE > /usr/src/lib/libc/rpc/LICENSE > /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/npe/LICENSE > /usr/src/sys/dev/em/LICENSE > /usr/src/sys/dev/ixgb/LICENSE > /usr/src/sys/dev/rr232x/LICENSE > /usr/src/usr.sbin/mrouted/LICENSE Duly noted. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Marvin Minsky: "It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse computer could actually spend Saturday afternoon watching a football game."
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