On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
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.