"Jim O'Regan" <[email protected]> writes:

> On 29 October 2014 10:29, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Mikel Artetxe <[email protected]> writes:
>>> Sure. In fact, that's exactly what I was proposing from the beginning.
>>> Jim's point was that we would be forced to publish our private key
>>> because of GPL, but it looks like that wouldn't be necessary after
>>> all.
>>
>> apt-get is GPL, and it uses a set of public keys to check the downloaded
>> software. It lets you change its keyring of course, but a user could do
>> that with Mitzuli as well by downloading the source and swapping out the
>> public key for their own and signing their own language pairs etc.
>>
>
> apt is quite different; firstly, it's demonstrably not intended
> primarily for use on "User Devices";

Should I not be running apt on my laptop?

> but it also allows you to rebuild
> the package from (possibly modified) source, as well as install your
> own keys, or install unsigned packages -- the latter two were both
> possibilities Mikel mentioned for Mitzuli.

Well, I was assuming that installing an unsigned package will give a
warning, and that people can get Mitzuli's source to rebuild with their
own validation key. Though of course one could make a UI for easily
putting in new keys so you don't have to build from source, but does the
GPL really cover that difference?


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Kevin Brubeck Unhammer

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