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

Charles N Wyble charles at knownelement.com
Mon Mar 28 19:51:01 UTC 2011


On 3/26/2011 7:37 AM, James Vasile wrote:
> Two notes about phantom:
>
> First, I think the Phantom doc to read is the whitepaper:
> http://www.fortego.se/phantom-paper.pdf

Very true. The blog seemed fairly high level and more status related.

> 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.





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