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.
If you are driving at the difference between Free Software and free software, then yes, the Apache license is of the latter kind (lax, permissive), but on their website, Tacticaltech write "free software" https://securityinabox.org/en/guide/veracrypt/linux, which looks correct to me. Does this version already incorporate your comments? Perhaps you should have shared them with this list to avoid confusion.
The FSF recommends the Apache 2.0 for small software programs https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html which Veracrypt is not, but I think this should not prevent anyone from recommending Veracrypt as long as no cross-platform hard disk encryption software is available with a more desirable license from FSF(E)'s point of view.
If you also have feedback they told me you can directly sent it to security@ngoinabox.org (in case you want encrypt, they sent me the attached public key for that).
You did not attach a key.
Cheers, Christian