On 16:16 Tue 07 Oct , James Westby wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 11:05 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > Recently, we had a request to add TrueCrypt to Fedora, and as part of > > that, we did due diligence on the license. What our legal counsel > > discovered was truly horrifying: not only was the license non-free, it > > almost certainly opens the user and the distributor to serious risk of > > legal action from the copyright holder, even if all conditions of the > > license are met. > > > > Accordingly, we've blocked TrueCrypt from inclusion in Fedora and marked > > it as one of our "ForbiddenItems". > > Thanks for the warning. > > Are there any references that you can point to. I can understand > not wanting to post a full assessment of the license, but a list > of the problematic clauses would be good.
Thanks, Tom. I just filed http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241650 for this. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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