I think a you can go to /usr/share/docs (or doc?) and find the licences of
pretty much every file of every package installed.
Look for the files belonging to the YAD package.
YAD (Yet Another Dialog) is not available on our repository. And I had
trouble with installing from source code. So, I've downloaded deb and checked
license. I want to be clear/sure that a package is free or not?
What about getting licensing information from deb?
That only works with Debian, and even there it's incomplete, and based on the
Debian Free Software Guidelines (which are a little different from GNU FSDG).
All vrms checks is whether or not you have packages installed from Debian's
non-free repository.
You can always install Virtual RMS
OK. Thank-you for comprehensive answer.
No problem. If you have trouble determining whether a package is free, let us
know.
if your ever not sure weather a program is free or not all
you need to do is make sure it has a free license and then
compile it from source it you can do this is libre
or you could just ask on this forum
When we are going to install software that is not available on our
repository, before downloading/installing it on our entirely-free system, How
to check whether the software is FREE or not?
Check that the licenses are free software licenses (some free licenses may be
missing from there, but most free software packages use one of these
licenses), and that the package has complete source code available. You can
check the license by downloading the source code. For the GNU
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