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diff --git a/Distrib/SoftwareLicensing.mdwn b/Distrib/SoftwareLicensing.mdwn
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-There are differences betwen the [Debian Free Software Guidelines](http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines) (DFSG) and [Free Software](http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) as defined by the Free Software Foundation. The FSF's GNU project is the sponsor of the GNU/Hurd project. Debian GNU/Hurd is a "port" or distribution of this software. I have not yet performed a comparison between the list of acceptable DFSG licenses (if a list exists) and the acceptable Free Software [license list](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html). (Not directly related but for reference, here's the Open Source [license list](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.html)) The packages marked "Essential" should be checked for the type of license they use.
+There are differences betwen the [Debian Free Software Guidelines](http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines) (DFSG) and [Free Software](http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) as defined by the Free Software Foundation. The FSF's GNU project is the sponsor of the GNU/Hurd project. Debian GNU/Hurd is a "port" or distribution of this software. I have not yet performed a comparison between the list of acceptable DFSG licenses (if a list exists) and the acceptable Free Software [license list](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html). (Perhaps not directly related but for reference, here's the Open Source [license list](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.html))
 
 What will this consist of? In the end the result will need to be simply a list of packages with their license marked next to them. This will be relatively simple for those packages that use a standard license. Software that has it's own custom license will need to be categorized.
 
@@ -7,3 +7,110 @@ I am thinking of ways to automatically check the licenses and to get lists of th
 The next step is checking the licenses of the packages. There is no dpkg package field available for license. A script that checks licenses will involve using "apt-get source" to check the COPYING and/or similar files in each package.
 
 -- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 5 Oct 2002
+
+I used the following command on an old Hurd machine to get the 22 packages with Essential in their description. I've listed them and put them in a table at the end of this topic.
+
+    sed -e '/./{H;$!d;}' -e 'x;/Essential\:\ yes/!d' /var/lib/dpkg/status | egrep ^Package | sort
+
+base-files base-passwd bash bsdutils debianutils diff dpkg e2fsprogs fileutils findutils grep gzip hostname hurd ncurses-base ncurses-bin perl-base sed shellutils tar textutils util-linux
+
+Using `base` instead of `Essential\:\ yes` above I find 64 additional packages.
+
+adduser alsa-base apt autoconf2.13 bug cpp-3.0 cvs debconf debconf-utils debhelper debiandoc-sgml debian-policy developers-reference exim fetchmail-common g++-3.0 gcc-3.0 gcc-3.0-base gettext gettext-base gnumach groff groff-base inetutils libc0.3 libc0.3-dev libdb2 libdb2++ libdb2-dev libdb2++-dev libdb2-util libdb3 libgdbmg1 libncurses5 libnet-perl libpam0g libpam-runtime libperl5.6 libpopt0 libpopt-dev libreadline4 libstdc++3 libstdc++3-dev libwrap0 libxaw7 man-db mawk mutt netbase passwd perl python python2.1 screen sgmltools-lite slang1 ssh tcpd texinfo xfree86-common xlibs xserver-common xterm xutils
+
+-- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 11 Jan 2003
+
+<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">
+  <tr>
+    <td> Name </td>
+    <td> Compatible License? </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> base-files </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> base-passwd </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> bash </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> bsdutils </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> debianutils </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> diff </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> dpkg </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> e2fsprogs </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> fileutils </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> findutils </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> grep </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> gzip </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> hostname </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> hurd </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> ncurses-base </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> ncurses-bin </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> perl-base </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> sed </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> shellutils </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> tar </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> textutils </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td> util-linux </td>
+    <td>   </td>
+  </tr>
+</table>