Arch Linux

John Karahalis

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Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 17

Building a Free Arch System

I will soon be installing Arch on my computer.

One thing that is important to me is Free Software (free as in freedom, think Stallman). I would like my Arch system to be as Free as possible. Are there any tools or sources of guidance that could help me ensure this? Even some method to get a package's license before installing it would be nice.

By the way, it's great to be here. It seems that Arch has a great community and I'm excited to have the chance to work with you all in the future.

Last edited by John Karahalis (2009-01-27 07:02:14)

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Building a Free Arch System

Welcome,

You can use:

pacman -Si <pkg> | grep Licenses

to get the license for a particular package or

pacman -Si | grep -e "^Name" -e "^Licenses"

to list all packages and their licenses.

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John Karahalis

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Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 17

Re: Building a Free Arch System

Very interesting. Thank you!