1VRMS-RPM(1)                 General Commands Manual                VRMS-RPM(1)
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NAME

6       vrms-rpm - report of installed non-free software
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SYNOPSIS

9       vrms-rpm [OPTION] ...
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DESCRIPTION

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
19       licensing guidelines.
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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
26       into the official Fedora / CentOS repository – such as software patents
27       or export restrictions.
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29       Richard Stallman has been, for years, the most prominent and vocal fig‐
30       ure  in the Free Software movement, relentlessly reminding us on issues
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
33       systems.  This program is an attempt to fulfil that need.
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OPTIONS

36       --ascii
37              Display rms ASCII-art when no non-free packages  are  found,  or
38              when non-free packages are 10% or more of the total.
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40       --explain
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>
47              Apart from displaying the total  number  of  free  and  non-free
48              packages,  also  list  packages  by name.  The default value for
49              this option is "nonfree".
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51       --version
52              Display version information and exit.
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SEE ALSO

55       https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses
56              The Fedora Project wiki page on accepted software licences.
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58       https://vrms.alioth.debian.org/
59              Home of the original vrms program.
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LICENCE

62       This program itself it available under the terms  of  the  GNU  General
63       Public  License,  version  3, as published by the Free Software Founda‐
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AUTHOR

67       Written in early 2017 by suve.
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