At 23:00 2002/11/02 -0800, you wrote:
Many in our research group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Dept of Theoretical and Computational Biology) are really pleased by Redhat 8.0. However, some of us are also socially conscious programmers and would prefer to support the spirit of the gnu-project by using only free - software on our systems. Presumably (or hopefully) a Red Hat distribution would not be broken by removing/not-installing non-free software in the distribution. So... is there a list of non-free software in the Redhat 8.0 distribution and (to anybody's knowledge) does Redhat 8.0 critically depend on any non-free software. (And yes we know about Debian, and that Mandrake certifies itself as "100% free - software" but we prefer Redhat.)Actually the License type is one of the bits of info stored in an RPM file. You can get a list of all installed packages by license type with:
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{LICENSE}\t%{NAME}\t%{VERSION}\n" | sort | less
(there may be a way to get RPM itself to sort by license type, I'm too lazy to go find out right now).
Then it's just a matter of looking up the terms for each license type listed (e.g. by looking in the docs directory for the first package with a license of this type) and removing the packages with licenses you don't like (e.g. redhat-logos, openjade and netscape on one of my RH 7.2 systems).
Then just repeat three times "There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.", rpm -e the offending packages and you should be ready to go.
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