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RPM is the Red Hat Package Manager.  While it does contain
Red Hat in the name, it is completely intended to be an open packaging
system available for anyone to use.  It allows users to take source
code for new software and package it into source and binary form such
that binaries can be easily installed and tracked and source can be 
rebuilt easily.  It also maintains a database of all packages 
and their files that can be used for verifying packages and querying 
for information about files and/or packages.
Red Hat Software encourages other distribution vendors to take the
time to look at RPM and use it for their own distributions.  RPM is
quite flexible and easy to use, though it provides the base for
a very extensive system.  It is also completely open and available,
though we would appreciate bug reports and fixes.   Permission is
granted to use and distribute RPM royalty free under the GPL.  
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