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| | name = vrms
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| | author = [[Bdale Garbee]]<br />Bill Geddes
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| | developer = [[Bdale Garbee]]<br />[[Rogério Brito]]
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| | latest release version = 1.16
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| | latest release date = {{Start date and age|2011|08|26}}
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| | license = [[GNU General Public License]]
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| | website = http://vrms.alioth.debian.org/
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| {{For|time-varying voltage as represented by <math>V_\mathrm{RMS}</math>|Root mean square}}
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| '''vrms''' (Virtual [[Richard Stallman|Richard M. Stallman]]) is a [[Computer program|program]] that analyzes the set of currently-installed packages on a [[Debian]]-based system, and reports all of the packages from the non-free tree which are currently installed. Software gets placed in the non-free tree when it is agreed not to be too problematic for Debian to distribute but does not meet the [[Debian Free Software Guidelines]] and therefore cannot be included in their official distribution. For each program from 'non-free' installed, vrms displays an explanation of why it is non-free, if one is available. | |
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| This explanation is usually from a list included in the vrms package itself, but other packages can provide additional lists of explanations, too.
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| ==History==
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| Vrms was written by [[Bdale Garbee]] and Bill Geddes for the [[Debian GNU/Linux]] system, in response to an open discussion with [[Richard Stallman]] about the issues surrounding the availability/desirability of the ’non-free’ package tree in Debian. Yet the package is somewhat controversial because while it contains Richard's initials it still follows Debian's definitions of ''free''.<ref>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2007-02/msg00027.html</ref> The Free Software Foundation lists vrms among packages that don't respect its Free System Distribution Guidelines.<ref>http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines#vrms</ref>
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| In 2005, [[Rogério Brito]], motivated to improve the status of the package status, looked at and fixed some long, outstanding bugs reported in Debian's Bug Tracking System, and, shortly afterwards, the project moved to a more distributed and cooperative development with a mailing list being created and with the source code being put in a Subversion version control system hosted by [[Alioth (Debian)|Alioth]]'s Debian server.
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| == Example ==
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| Output of vrms in a system with [[Java (Sun)|Sun Java]], [[RAR (file format)|unrar]] and [[VMware Player]] installed:
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| Non-free packages installed on localhost
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| sun-java5-bin Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
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| sun-java5-demo Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 demos and examp
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| sun-java5-jdk Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0
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| sun-java5-jre Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
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| unrar Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
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| Reason: Modifications problematic
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| vmware-player Free virtual machine player from VMware
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| vmware-player-kernel-modu vmware-player modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.17)
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| 7 non-free packages, 0.6% of 1218 installed packages.
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| ==References==
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| ==External links==
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| * vrms in [http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/vrms packages.debian.org]
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| * [http://vrms.alioth.debian.org/ vrms history, description, and link to SVN]
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| * http://alioth.debian.org/projects/vrms/
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