For Approval: TrueCrypt Collective License Version 2.0

[Tomas Novak]

Matthew Seth Flaschen wrote:

> Obviously, you could not claim specifically that, but you could claim 
> the program was distributed under OSI-certified licenses, and thus in 
> whole is OSI-certified.  

Hi Matthew,

In our opinion, we cannot safely assume that several OSI-certified 
licenses merged into a single compound license will automatically 
create a OSI-certified license. Theoretically, interaction between the 
licenses could cause the compound license to be non-compliant in some 
respect. Therefore, we believe we need OSI approval of the compound 
license as a whole, so that the interaction between the component 
licenses and the definition of the phrase "component license" are 
approved as well. 

Thank you very much for your comments.

Sincerely,
Tomas Novak

TrueCrypt Foundation
http://www.truecrypt.org/