James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. > > 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.
Which seems to come to a contradictory conclusion <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/07/msg00009.html>; i.e. that the license *is* free under the DFSG. (On a quick reading, I incline more toward the “non-free” side, but that's not something to be discussed at length here.) I'd very much like to see Tom Calloway's reference for *why* the license terms are such a serious risk; preferably, placed in (or linked from) the Fedora wiki page where the work is forbidden. -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, | `\ Brain, but isn't a cucumber that small called a gherkin?” | _o__) —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list Distributions@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions