Vrms considers the Debian Free Software Guidelines, which are different from the FSF/RMS's definition of free software. That is why I wrote the command is misnamed (it should not refer to "rms"). For instance, Debian as a project (individual developers may have different opinions) considers that the GNU FDL is a non-free license. You can try to send a patch to change this fact but it will be ignored.

A "fixed" 'vrms' (i.e., using the FSF's definition of free software) would be completely useless on Trisquel (remember that 'vrms' only considers the packages installed through APT). I can write this tool right now (here in Shell):
echo 'No non-free package installed. rms would be proud.'

I am not sure to understand what you mean by "blacklisted" or "an attack to Free Speech". Like many other packages, 'vrms' is not in Trisquel's repository. That is all. If you want to install it anyway (to see what software you use does not qualify as "free" for Debian), go on. Trisquel will not prevent its installation.

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