On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 20:39, Luke Macken wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:55:30PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > > Has anyone looked at truecrypt? Looks interesting. I D/L the source, but > > it says: > > > > Note that Linux kernel headers, located in the 'include' directory, are > > not sufficient for compilation of the TrueCrypt kernel module. Fields of > > 'dm_dev' structure must be accessed by TrueCrypt but they are defined only > > in > > an internal kernel header 'drivers/md/dm.h'. No appropriate accessor > > function > > is available. The complete source code of the Linux kernel is required for > > compilation of the kernel module. > > Truecrypt is awesome, but their license[0] is a bit questionable. It's a > hybrid of a bunch of different licenses and has some interesting > distribution clauses. IANAL, so we definitely would want to run it by > fedora-legal-list if we hope to get truecrypt into Fedora. There has also > been some talk about this license in the Debian community: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/06/msg00294.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/07/msg00008.html > > luke > > [0]: http://www.truecrypt.org/license.php Here are src.rpms with tools and kmod: http://rpm.greysector.net/livna/ Feel free to submit them to livna/rpmfusion. I don't have time to maintain them, but I made those when I was looking for a cryptofs solution for both Linux and Windows (and settled on LUKS instead). Regards, R. -- Fedora contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
