Hi,
I'm wondering if the latest TrueCrypt license is acceptable for Fedora.
http://www.truecrypt.org/legal/license
I know there have been issues with various ambiguities in the past, but the rumor on the street is that their license has drastically improved.
Thanks,
luke
Luke Macken wrote:
I'm wondering if the latest TrueCrypt license is acceptable for Fedora.
http://www.truecrypt.org/legal/license
I know there have been issues with various ambiguities in the past, but the rumor on the street is that their license has drastically improved.
I think this part make it unacceptable (I didn't even look much further):
II. Terms and Conditions for Use, Copying, and Distribution
1. You may copy and/or distribute This Product, provided that You do not modify This Product (for terms and conditions for copying and distribution of modified versions of This Product, see Chapter III)
Chapter III does allow modified versions to be distributed if they are not called Truecrypt, along with a number of other requirements. And there is an exclusion for operating system vendors, but that still requires unmodified source to be what is built.
It don't smell like a free nor open-source software license to me. :)
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 16:20 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Chapter III does allow modified versions to be distributed if they are not called Truecrypt, along with a number of other requirements. And there is an exclusion for operating system vendors, but that still requires unmodified source to be what is built.
It don't smell like a free nor open-source software license to me. :)
Yeah, thats a really crappy provision. Software we can't patch is difficult to maintain.
The documentation requirements in III.1.b are overbearing and III.1.d are practically impossible for us to meet as worded.
Of course, we don't have to comply by anything in III.1, because Fedora is an "operating system vendor", I suppose, but this license spins in loops on itself. I'm betting it comes back as non-free, but I'll send it along for formal judgement.
~spot