Truecrypt kernel issues

William Muriithi william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Feb 22 02:15:36 UTC 2011


Jamon,
>
> The consensus seems to be that the truecrypt license isn't a full-on FOSS
> compatible license:
>
I think there was license changed after it was removed from the
kernel.  There was a time it was actually in the kernel and then
replaced by dmcrypt.   If the license was the issue all along, then it
would not have got in the kernel in early 2000s


> https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/6/29
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#Licensing
> http://www.truecrypt.org/legal/license
>
> Jamon
>
William
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