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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10 vrms-rpm [OPTION] ...
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14 This program is a clone of the original vrms ("virtual Richard M.
15 Stallman") program for Debian GNU/Linux, created with the purpose of
16 bringing its brilliant idea over to RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions.
17 This program analyses the list of currently installed RPM packages and
19 reports found non-free packages to stdout. The decision on whether to
20 classify a package as free or non-free is based on the Fedora Project
21 licensing guidelines.
22 Fedora / CentOS users using additional repositories, such as RPM
24 Fusion, may notice that not all packages coming from non-official repos
25 are marked as non-free. This is because the distinction, as noted
26 before, is made depending on the package licence. There are various
27 reasons, apart from licensing, why a package may not have been accepted
28 into the official Fedora / CentOS repository – such as software patents
29 or export restrictions.
30 Richard Stallman has been, for years, the most prominent and vocal fig‐
32 ure in the Free Software movement, relentlessly reminding us on issues
33 of software ethics. Like Richard, we believe that users should have an
34 easy way to know whether they’re running non-free software on their
35 systems. This program is an attempt to fulfil that need.
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39 --ascii
40 Display rms ASCII-art when no non-free packages are found, or
41 when non-free packages are 10% or more of the total.
42 --colour <auto, no, yes>
45 Controls whether terminal escape sequences should be used for
46 colourizing the output. Default is 'auto', which uses colour
47 output when writing to a terminal, but not when writing to a
48 file or a pipe.
49 --describe
52 When listing packages, include the package summaries (short
53 descriptions).
54 --explain
57 When listing packages, display licences as to justify the free /
58 non-free classification.
59 --help Display a short help on program usage and exit.
62 --image
65 Like --ascii, but displays an image using terminal escape
66 seqences and Unicode half-height blocks.
67 --licence-list <FILE>
70 Specifies the list of good licences to use for classifying pack‐
71 ages. FILE can be a path to a file on disk, or one of the bun‐
72 dled licence lists:
73 · fedora
74 · spdx-fsf-and-osi
75 · spdx-fsf-or-osi
76 · spdx-only-fsf
77 · spdx-only-osi
78 · suse
79 · tweaked
80 The default value is "tweaked".
81 --list <none, free, nonfree, all>
84 Apart from displaying the total number of free and non-free
85 packages, also list packages by name. The default value for
86 this option is "nonfree".
87 --version
90 Display version information and exit.
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94 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses
95 The Fedora Project wiki page on accepted software licences.
96 https://spdx.org/licenses/
99 The SPDX licence list, an attempt at standarizing licence iden‐
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104 This program itself it available under the terms of the GNU General
105 Public License, version 3, as published by the Free Software Founda‐
106 tion.
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110 Written in early 2017 by suve.
111 2018-05-18 VRMS-RPM(1)