[Freedombox-discuss] Has anyone looked at phantom? What other hard core security things are people investigating?

[Ted Smith]

On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 14:51 -0500, Charles N Wyble wrote:
> > Second, I just read Phantom's license.  That was quite a chore, given
> > how it is drafted.  Phantom is released under the Hacktivismo
> > Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement (HESSLA), which appears to be
> > neither GPL compatible nor DFSG.  See
> > <http://hacktivismo.com/about/hessla.php>.
> 
> Ewww. That can be a real barrier to adoption.  I'll have to read the 
> license and see what I think about it.
> 
> > Phantom's author claims not to be knowledgeable about licensing.  If
> > FreedomBox wants to use Phantom and wants to see it packaged for Debian,
> > maybe Phantom's author can be convinced to use a more mainstream DFSG
> > license.
> 
> I think I'll ping him/them about licensing. I'll probably have other 
> questions as well once I start testing out phanthom.

HESSLA is a non-free license according to the FSF:

<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NonFreeSoftwareLicense>


Further, it's an irrelevant, unenforceable, and unnecessary license:

<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/hessla.html>
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