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This program was written specifically for Debian by Bill Geddes and Bdale
Garbee in January of 1999. The effort resulted from a series of discussions
with Richard M. Stallman about the problem posed by the existence of the
non-free tree on many Debian FTP sites to users who wish to run a system of
entirely free (aka Open Source) software.
Things that are on our wish list:
- augment the script to support a "verbose" option, which would display
some text from the collected public writings of RMS, et al, helping
to explain the issues posed by non-free software.
- further augment the verbose option to make specific comments about
each non-free package... for example, explain the patent issues
surrounding the GIF image format.
- process dependency information to report what DFSG-compliant package,
if any, may have led to the installation of each non-free package.
Feel free to let us know if you have any other good ideas! The best way to do
so would be to file a bug against package 'vrms' in the Debian Bug Tracking
System.
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