Debian Bug report logs - #364034
RFP: truecrypt -- cross-platform disk encryption

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Quas <tquas@yahoo.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: RFP: truecrypt -- Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003 and Linux

Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:36:52 +0200

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : truecrypt
  Version         : 4.2
  Upstream Author : Name <somebody@example.org>
* URL             : http://www.truecrypt.org/
* License         : TrueCrypt License 2.0 (http://www.truecrypt.org/license.php)
  Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.)
  Description     : Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003 and Linux

>From the man pages:
Manages  encrypted  TrueCrypt  volumes,  which can be mapped as virtual
block devices and used as any other standard  block  device.  All  data
being  read  from  a mapped TrueCrypt volume is transparently decrypted
and all data being written to it is transparently encrypted.



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Message #10 received at 364034@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@users.sourceforge.net>

To: 364034@bugs.debian.org, 364034-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: truecrypt license is unclear

Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:15:38 +0200

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Hi,

just wanted to note that debian-legal says[1] that the truecrypt license
is not precise enough to be considered for packaging.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/06/msg00295.html

So unless the author decides to clear up the license, or chooses another
one, this software will most likely not be packaged for Debian.

Regards,
  Bastian
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Message #18 received at 364034@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sami Liedes <sliedes@cc.hut.fi>

To: 364034@bugs.debian.org, 364034-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Truecrypt license clarified

Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 04:47:04 +0200

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Hi,

Just noting for the record that the license[1] has been clarified[2].

	Sami

[1] http://www.truecrypt.org/license.php
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/07/msg00009.html

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Message #26 received at 364034-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Moreno Garza <damog@merkel.debian.org>

To: 364034-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: WNPP bug closing

Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:59:51 -0700

Hello,

This is an automatic mail sent to close the RFP you have reported or 
are involved with.

Your RFP wnpp bug is being closed because of the following reasons:
- It is, as of today, older than 365 days.
- It hasn't had any activity recently.

As this is an automatic procedure, it could of course have something
wrong and probably it would be closing some bugs that are not 
intended by owners and submitters (like you) to be closed, for
example if the RFP is still of your interest, or there has been 
some kind of activity around it. In that case, please reopen the
bug, do it, DO IT NOW! (I don't want to be blamed because of
mass closing and not let people know that they can easily reopen
their bugs ;-).

To re-open it, you simply have to mail control@bugs.debian.org
with a body text like this:

 reopen 364034
 stop

Further comments on the work done in the bug sent to
364034@bugs.debian.org would be truly welcomed.
Anyway, if you have any kind of problems when dealing with
the BTS, feel free to contact me and I'd be more than happy to help
you on this: <damog@debian.org>.

A similar process is being applied to other kind of wnpp bugs.

Thanks for your cooperation,

 -- David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>.
 

Message #37 received at 364034@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Seaward <dseaward925@gmail.com>

To: 364034@bugs.debian.org

Subject: TrueCrypt license is now at v3.0

Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:15:05 +0200

I have been following this issue downstream at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/109701

Relevant comments:

 * The TrueCrypt license is now at v3.0 - afaik an update since the
last evaluation - http://www.truecrypt.org/legal/license - is this now
acceptable?

 * It appears likely that TrueCrypt would only be suitable for
multiverse, not universe, and would require re-branding similar to
what was done with IceWeasel in Debian, but I think it can be included
now... If not, please contact upstream at licensing@truecrypt.org
about any remaining concerns.

Message #42 received at 364034@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>

To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org

Cc: David Seaward <dseaward925@gmail.com>, 364034@bugs.debian.org, control <control@bugs.debian.org>, 413070@bugs.debian.org, Francis Russell <francis@unchartedbackwaters.co.uk>

Subject: Re: TrueCrypt license is now at v3.0

Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:13:06 +0100

retitle 364034 ITP: truecrypt -- cross-platform disk encryption
owner 364034 Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>
thanks

Hi,

I would like help the package maintenance of truecrypt started by Russel [1]
and upload the package to non-free it if the revised (3.0) license allows that.

I think having the package in non-free would be better than having and installer
but I'm not 100% sure if the new license allows even that.

To my understanding the previous (2.x) license has already been discussed [2]
on debian-legal and found to be not clear enough and definitely not DFSG-free.

I'm hereby seeking debian-legal's advice to decide whether the new
license allows
truecrypt to be uploaded to non-free.

Thanks,
Balint


On 10/12/2011 09:15 AM, David Seaward wrote:

I have been following this issue downstream at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/109701

Relevant comments:

 * The TrueCrypt license is now at v3.0 - afaik an update since the
last evaluation - http://www.truecrypt.org/legal/license - is this now
acceptable?

 * It appears likely that TrueCrypt would only be suitable for
multiverse, not universe, and would require re-branding similar to
what was done with IceWeasel in Debian, but I think it can be included
now... If not, please contact upstream at licensing@truecrypt.org
about any remaining concerns.

[1] http://www.unchartedbackwaters.co.uk/pyblosxom/static/truecrypt_debian_packaging
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/06/msg00294.html

Message #51 received at 364034@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>

To: balint@balintreczey.hu

Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org, David Seaward <dseaward925@gmail.com>, 364034@bugs.debian.org, control <control@bugs.debian.org>, 413070@bugs.debian.org, Francis Russell <francis@unchartedbackwaters.co.uk>

Subject: Re: Re: TrueCrypt license is now at v3.0

Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:59:58 +0100

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retitle 364034 RFP: truecrypt -- cross-platform disk encryption
noowner 364034
thanks

The current license of TrueCrypt seems to be even worse. There may be
some improvements in the future [3], but I don't plan working on
TrueCrypt until the license question is resolved.

Thanks,
Balint

[3]
http://threatpost.com/audit-aims-to-put-concerns-over-dubious-truecrypt-license-to-rest

On 01/13/2013 08:13 PM, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> retitle 364034 ITP: truecrypt -- cross-platform disk encryption
> owner 364034 Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like help the package maintenance of truecrypt started by Russel [1]
> and upload the package to non-free it if the revised (3.0) license allows that.
> 
> I think having the package in non-free would be better than having and installer
> but I'm not 100% sure if the new license allows even that.
> 
> To my understanding the previous (2.x) license has already been discussed [2]
> on debian-legal and found to be not clear enough and definitely not DFSG-free.
> 
> I'm hereby seeking debian-legal's advice to decide whether the new
> license allows
> truecrypt to be uploaded to non-free.
> 
> Thanks,
> Balint
> 
> 
> On 10/12/2011 09:15 AM, David Seaward wrote:
> 
> I have been following this issue downstream at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/109701
> 
> Relevant comments:
> 
>  * The TrueCrypt license is now at v3.0 - afaik an update since the
> last evaluation - http://www.truecrypt.org/legal/license - is this now
> acceptable?
> 
>  * It appears likely that TrueCrypt would only be suitable for
> multiverse, not universe, and would require re-branding similar to
> what was done with IceWeasel in Debian, but I think it can be included
> now... If not, please contact upstream at licensing@truecrypt.org
> about any remaining concerns.
> 
> [1] http://www.unchartedbackwaters.co.uk/pyblosxom/static/truecrypt_debian_packaging
> [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/06/msg00294.html
> 
> 
> 

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Message #60 received at 364034@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christophe-Marie Duquesne <chmd@chmd.fr>

To: Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>

Cc: Debian-legal <debian-legal@lists.debian.org>, David Seaward <dseaward925@gmail.com>, 364034@bugs.debian.org, control <control@bugs.debian.org>, 413070@bugs.debian.org, Francis Russell <francis@unchartedbackwaters.co.uk>

Subject: Re: Re: TrueCrypt license is now at v3.0

Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:00:46 +0100

Not sure if that helps, but there is now tcplay, a new truecrypt
implementation [1]. It is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license. It is
supposed to be fully compatible with truecrypt, and so far I heard [2]
that it is pretty stable. See the archlinux wiki page [3] for the
manual. Maybe you could consider packaging this one instead?

[1]: https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play
[2]: http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2013/01/10/truecrypt/
[3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tcplay

Message #65 received at 364034@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>

To: Christophe-Marie Duquesne <chmd@chmd.fr>

Cc: Debian-legal <debian-legal@lists.debian.org>, David Seaward <dseaward925@gmail.com>, 364034@bugs.debian.org, control <control@bugs.debian.org>, 413070@bugs.debian.org, Francis Russell <francis@unchartedbackwaters.co.uk>

Subject: Re: Re: TrueCrypt license is now at v3.0

Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:38:53 +0100

Hi Cristhophe-Marie,

2013/11/18 Christophe-Marie Duquesne <chmd@chmd.fr>:
> Not sure if that helps, but there is now tcplay, a new truecrypt
> implementation [1]. It is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license. It is
> supposed to be fully compatible with truecrypt, and so far I heard [2]
> that it is pretty stable. See the archlinux wiki page [3] for the
> manual. Maybe you could consider packaging this one instead?
I was not aware of that implementation and thanks to your suggestion
I was about to check it, but fortunately it has already been packaged
by GCS [4].

Cheeers,
Balint

[4] http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tcplay.html

>
> [1]: https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play
> [2]: http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2013/01/10/truecrypt/
> [3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tcplay

Message #72 received at 364034-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bob Bib <bobbib@ukr.net>

To: 364034-done@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#364034: RFP: truecrypt -- cross-platform disk encryption

Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:44:26 +0300

tags 364034 wontfix
thanks

TrueCrypt was discontinued in May 2014:
http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/
at version 7.2:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/truecrypt/files/TrueCrypt/Other/

So now there're no good reasons left to package it.

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Best wishes, Bob

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