On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 12:57 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote: > Hi, > > For the following review : > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474549 > > I would need to know if the "Non Related Persons Disclaimer and > Licence" under which the CAcert root certificates files are is > acceptable for Fedora or not. Full text here : > http://www.cacert.org/policy/NRPDisclaimerAndLicence.php > > What I see is that it only really applies to liability, and doesn't > cover modifications since those wouldn't make much sense. What does > bother me somewhat is the last part of the "License" section : "You may > NOT distribute certificates or root keys under this licence, nor make > representation about them." as well as the fact that liability might be > transferred to the Fedora Project if the certificates are shipped in > the distribution. Yeah, so this would be a Content license rather than a software license. Given that it does not give permission for us to redistribute (the cornerstone requirement for Content licenses), this license is not acceptable for Fedora. ~spot _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
