tcplay: BSD-licensed alternative to TrueCrypt

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
>> There was discussion back in 2007 of TrueCrypt, and the conclusion was
>> that the license was non-free, with several major problems.
>
> Just an FYI, unless you specifically want to stay away from
> problematic licences (i.e. Fedora) but don't have a problem using RPM
> Fusion, you can install RealCrypt. It's IS TruCrypt just re-branded.
>
> If I remember correctly it's not that TrueCrypt is non-free, but that
> the license is incompatible with Fedora and upstream was not willing
> to budge on that so it was re-branded instead.

The TrueCrypt License is, in fact, non-free for several reasons:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/distributions/2008-October/000276.html

-T.C.