Many programming languages come with their own package managers to ease installation of new software as well as libraries. You can install those packages globally (system-wide) or locally (in a folder). Examples of those packages managers: npm (CSS/JavaScript), Bower (Web), pip (Python), Ruby Gems (Ruby), CPAN (Perl), Cargo (Rust), ...

Nearly all of those package managers accept non-free licenses. At least, most of those package managers show the license of the program, but it doesn't even warn you when installing a non-free package.

The two possible solutions to stay FSDG-compliant are:

1. Remove those package managers. It comes at a great convenience loss, and will make installing some software much harder (as you usually install the dependencies through the package manager).

2. Create a separate repository. In this case, I hope you have the manpower to mirror all the free packages and remove only the non-free ones, else you'll land in a situation similar to 1.

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