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[Jim Cheetham]

Timothy Musson wrote:
> I don't know whether or not it's possible to get package license info
> easily under Debian, though it's easy enough to remove (or not add) the
> non-free section via apt's sources.list.
> 
> Fun: the "vrms" (Virtual RMS) package gets its thrills by sending me a
> monthly reminder to uninstall the non-free "unzip" package. ("unzip" is
> the only non-free prog I haven't found a way to avoid.)

Look in /var/lib/dpkg/status (which is what vrms does, btw).
You're looking for the Section to include "non-free", and the Status to 
be "installed".

This shell cmd does the same thing (assuming that packages are always 
listed as "Package:\nStatus:\nPriority:\nSection:")
grep -A2 -B1 "Status.* installed" /var/lib/dpkg/status \
	|grep -v Priority \
	|grep -B2 non-free

-jim