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. Ah, I've just noticed the wiki syntax in which you wrote that. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#TrueCrypt which is similar to the answer here. I'll put a pointer to this thread in the Ubuntu request for packaging and close it. https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/109701 Also of interest is the Debian RFP http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364034 with links to the debian-legal discussion on the package. Thanks, James _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list Distributions@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions