I've just run it on my installation of gNewSense and this was the result:
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address@hidden:~$ vrms
vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #1231!
pkg=[emacs], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[]
Non-free packages installed on vostok
ttf-gentium Gentium TrueType font
1 non-free packages, 0.1% of 1266 installed packages.
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I've just checked and according to:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium
Gentium is released under the SIL Open Font License, which is fine according
to the FSF.
I don't know what the "Badly formed dpkg-status entry" means for emacs though?
I uninstalled emacs and the message went away, reinstalled and it came back
again.