TrueCrypt licensing concern

[Donnie Berkholz]

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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