On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Eric Smith <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> There was discussion back in 2007 of TrueCrypt, and the conclusion was >> that the license was non-free, with several major problems. > > Just an FYI, unless you specifically want to stay away from > problematic licences (i.e. Fedora) but don't have a problem using RPM > Fusion, you can install RealCrypt. It's IS TruCrypt just re-branded. > > If I remember correctly it's not that TrueCrypt is non-free, but that > the license is incompatible with Fedora and upstream was not willing > to budge on that so it was re-branded instead. The TrueCrypt License is, in fact, non-free for several reasons: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/distributions/2008-October/000276.html -T.C. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
