[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License clarification (Issue #2511)

[Miroslav Suchý]

As part of the move to the SPDX identifier I have tried to convert rpm license to SPDX:

The current license string in Fedora is:
```
# Partially GPL/LGPL dual-licensed and some bits with BSD
# SourceLicense: (GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ with exceptions) and BSD                                                                                                                                
License: GPLv2+
```

The README in this repository states:
```
RPM is Copyright (c) 1998 by Red Hat Software, Inc.,
and may be distributed under the terms of the GPL and LGPL (see  the
file COPYING for details).
```

http://rpm.org/about.html states
```
RPM is [free software](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html), released under the [GNU GPL](https://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html).
```

OpenSuse states in rpm.spec: GPL-2.0-or-later

And with respect to [no effective analysis](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-field/#_no_effective_license_analysis) - what is the license of this project?

When crawling through the repository I:

 * failed what is the exception suggested in "LGPLv2+ with exceptions"
 * what is the BSD referred in the comment? - we have several variants of BSD in SPDX
 
If I omit these two issues I tend to think that the correct license is `GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later` but I will welcome your guidance.

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