1VRMS-RPM(1) General Commands Manual VRMS-RPM(1)
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6 vrms-rpm - report of installed non-free software
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9 vrms-rpm [OPTION] ...
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12 This program is a clone of the original vrms ("virtual Richard M.
13 Stallman") program for Debian GNU/Linux, created with the purpose of
14 bringing its brilliant idea over to RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions.
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16 This program analyses the list of currently installed RPM packages and
17 reports found non-free packages to stdout. The decision on whether to
18 classify a package as free or non-free is based on the Fedora Project
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21 Fedora / CentOS users using additional repositories, such as RPM
22 Fusion, may notice that not all packages coming from non-official repos
23 are marked as non-free. This is because the distinction, as noted
24 before, is made depending on the package licence. There are various
25 reasons, apart from licensing, why a package may not have been accepted
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29 Richard Stallman has been, for years, the most prominent and vocal fig‐
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31 of software ethics. Like Richard, we believe that users should have an
32 easy way to know whether they’re running non-free software on their
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37 Display rms ASCII-art when no non-free packages are found, or
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41 When listing packages, display licences as to justify the free /
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44 --help Display a short help on program usage and exit.
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46 --list <none, free, nonfree, all>
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59 Home of the original vrms program.
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62 This program itself it available under the terms of the GNU General
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67 Written in early 2017 by suve.
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