On 08/13/2016 01:03 AM, Christian Pietsch wrote:
Hi Matthias, hi Free Software lovers,
On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 01:21:58PM +0200, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
I was contacted by tacticaltech about the new section on howtos for security under GNU/Linux, see the message below.
Glad to hear you are in contact. I had a chance to leaf through their beautiful book "security in-a-box" and respect them for their work.
I already sent them some feedback about it (Veracrypt not being Free Software,
Veracrypt is released under the Apache 2.0 license which is listed among the GPL-compatible free software licenses in the green section of https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2.
The problem with VeraCrypt is that it contains big portions of Truecrypt code, which are covered by the non-free Truecrypt license. APL only covers the "new" parts of its code. [1]
~nikos
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeraCrypt#License_and_source_model