Re: tcplay: BSD-licensed alternative to TrueCrypt

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On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:28 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth
<tchollingsworth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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

That's being rather pedantic... Yes it's considered non-free because
of the screwy licensing agreement, however, the software is free to
download and use, it is open source.

Actually your link supports my last statement quite nicely.

Richard
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