On Tuesday 09 December 2008 23:17:07 Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 23:03 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
>> "TC" == Tom "spot" Callaway <Tom> writes:
TC> Given that it does not give permission for us to redistribute (the TC> cornerstone requirement for Content licenses), this license is not TC> acceptable for Fedora.
I guess I'm glad I looked before approving the package, but I have to wonder: Do the cacert folks actually want anyone to use their certificates? I mean, this prevents basically everyone from using them, because they can't come with the OS or the browser.
Personally, the more I read the document, the more I'm confused.
"You may NOT distribute certificates or root keys under this licence"... does this mean we can distribute under a different license?
Well, sortof. The wording here is strange because you can get a different license from the CA issuer. We can't just pick a license, but the CA issuer might be willing to give us a different one.
Would it be worth getting in contact with CAcert.org in order to try and have them allow us to redistribute the root certs under conditions which are acceptable to the Fedora Project?
Probably, yes. :)
Just thought I'd chime in on this CACert issue. We at openSUSE have the same problem with the CACert license and we are in contact with them about it. They don't seem to be sure about what to do and are open for suggestions, especially from distributors. They want to get their root certs into our distributions, but worry about possible implications of their private key being compromised.
I think it would make sense to coordinate our efforts here - openSUSE and Fedora want to distribute the CaCert.org root certs and we are both unhappy with the current terms of distribution.
@spot - if you like, I'll forward you our correspondence with the cacert people thus far.
Ciaran