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Ages ago someone wrote a bash script that would calculate your "stallman score", essentially checking the license of every package in your system.
absolutely-proprietary?
nmap isn't Foss?!?
From absolutely-proprietary:
"the FSF considers the v7.9x license to be non-free - however, the previous license was apparently non-free also"
That's all I know
Well, we need that back!
It's called vrms (virtual RMS) and Debian at least packages it.
7 out of 705 installed packages are non-free packages on my RPi server.
It's called check-dfsg-status since Stallmann stepped down after his controversial statements in Minsky's Epstein scandal.
TIL
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