On 04/02/2018 06:24 PM, Tom Callaway wrote: > On 04/01/2018 02:14 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> I don't know if anything has changed since then, and what version of the >> TrueCrypt license that assessment was based on. > > TrueCrypt upstream vanished in a puff of smoke in 2014, cancelling > development. All of the forks are based on that abandoned code, which is > under the same license that Fedora investigated and determined to be not > only non-free, but potentially dangerous to end users. > > Since VeraCrypt is using TrueCrypt code (under the TrueCrypt license), > it cannot go into Fedora. > > I really wish people would let it die. :/ BTW all TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt images can be opened by cryptsetup. So if your goal is to share encrypted device with other OS, it should work out of the box in Fedora. (Cryptsetup cannot create new Veracrypt images, intentionally.) Milan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
