On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 02:51:26PM -0400, Tom Callaway wrote: > On 10/06/2011 04:54 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > 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. > > TrueCrypt is definitely not Free Software. A simple rebranding to > prevent use of their trademark is not sufficient to make it Free > Software. It is also not Open Source, as it fails several of the OSI > Open Source Definition criteria. > > In addition, I have strong reason to believe that the license in > TrueCrypt is carefully crafted to incorporate legal conditions where the > TrueCrypt upstream could do all sorts of really really nasty and > horrible things, including suing users for _complying_ with the terms of > the license. When I pointed this out to TrueCrypt's upstream in 2008, > their answer was basically "Yeah, so what?". > > Stand far, far, far away. Is there any reason to use TrueCrypt, over the whole disk encryption that Fedora already provides? LUKS "just works" afaict ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
