On Wed, April 2, 2014 05:01, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > These certs were removed from Debian a month ago. Perhaps you'd be > interested in the recent thread on devel: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/03/msg00375.html
Thank you, but I think the maintainer knows very well that he removed the cert from his own package. That thread on d-devel, as we're used from that list, is not very productive and has wandered off into generic talk about encryption. There is currently discussion on whether these certificates could not be provided in another way for those that want them, without including them in the default set that every Debian system gets. A precondition to such a solution to be possible is that the licensing question is answered. As I've said in the bug log, I'm fully in agreement with Steve's argument that there is no copyright possible on any root certificate. However, I do have some sympathy to Michael's argument that if CAcert went to the trouble to explicitly make a license statement that forbids distributions to carry the root CA, maybe we should respect their wish, even if not legally obliged to do so. Cheers, Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/98e14f9a73988b3bf112f2013842a0ac.squir...@aphrodite.kinkhorst.nl
