From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 23:57:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE82106566C for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:57:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-147.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-147.bluehost.com [67.222.38.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B006C8FC26 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:57:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 29752 invoked by uid 0); 15 Apr 2008 23:57:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy5.bluehost.com with SMTP; 15 Apr 2008 23:57:32 -0000 Received: from c-67-165-217-249.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.165.217.249] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Jlv1o-0006A4-A6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:57:32 -0600 Received: by demeter.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:57:33 -0600 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:57:33 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20080415235733.GA79279@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: <20080415231450.GF78906@demeter.hydra> <20080415162955.Y25041@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080415162955.Y25041@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.com} {sentby:smtp auth 67.165.217.249 authed with perrin@apotheon.com} Subject: Re: determining what's in the base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:57:34 -0000 --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 04:35:52PM -0700, Luke Dean wrote: > On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Chad Perrin wrote: >=20 > >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)? > > > >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. I'm pretty sure there > >isn't any proprietary closed source software in there, but I wouldn't bet > >any substantial amount of money on it at this point, because I haven't > >really checked into it. >=20 > For the first question, I'd first look at where the utility is. Base=20 > system utilities won't be in /usr/local. Add-on packages and ports=20 > "should" be. > The "pkg_info" utility and all of its switches and options could be usefu= l=20 > too, if your ports database is correct. Thanks. Using what's in /usr/local should have occurred to me. >=20 > For the second question, I've always assumed that /COPYRIGHT applied to= =20 > everything in the base system. I'm pretty sure GCC is in the base system (for instance), and it's GPL software. There's no mention of it in /COPYRIGHT at all. Please correct me if I'm mistaken somehow. --=20 CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Patrick J. LoPresti: "Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!" --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkgFQO0ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXXEwCfaarH1pLdE17h92LMYGdVwP+u TCcAn3aVCjyvlYoi7RsocKZXFYd3b8PJ =CRJS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf--