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Re: Full disk encryption for OS X alternative to TrueCrypt
From: "CIURANA EUGENE (pr3d4t0r - Full Disclosure)" <fulldisclosure () cime net>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 14:52:35 -0700
On 2014-05-29 14:39, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
GPL can be a toxic
license. Its great if you're OK with being
boxed-in, but its too
encumbered to do anything outside of Stallman's
vision. Apache, Boost
and {2|3}-clause BSD license will likely be more
useful for those who
want to reuse code or components.
Build the code in C/C++ so its
portable and available everywhere.
Package it as a library. Build the
loader using platform
specific/native APIs. Build the front-end using
the platform specific
frameworks. For example, use Cocoa and Objective
C on Mac OS X, use Qt
on Linux, etc. I've built multi-platofrm
libraries using C/C++ for years. They are
write once, run everywhere.
The libraries run on Windows, Linux, OS X,
Android and iOS. Windows
Phone and Windows RT kind of sucks, though. Thanks Jeff! I was thinking along those lines, except that I want to dispense with C++ and keep the code in C altogether. Better portability than with C++, and fewer headaches for the developers who'll audit/contribute to the code. The only reason I was considering GPLv2 was for its toxicity... it may deter third-parties from hijacking the code into other applications. In the normal course of business all my open source stuff is done under BSD or Apache. I think I'll continue with either of those (thinking that BSD might be the best). Layering it as a library + drivers was also my general idea (hence looking into how Fuse works). Thanks very much for the advise; you've confirmed some 5,000' level assumptions I'd made, and showed me a better path when it comes to licensing. Cheers! pr3d _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
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