On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:09:31AM +0900, AIDA Shinra wrote:
Hello,
I am packaging sole ca-bundle.crt for Fink.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=928157group_id=17203atid=414256
Fink package system has License field. I must fill it. What is the
license of sole ca-bundle.crt? Mod_ssl license? Or nothing like
license?
It's a tricky legal question, I think.
The original source of the ca-bundle.crt was a database shipped with the
Netscape browser. It's possible to derive a new ca-bundle.crt from the
Mozilla source code, which is what Debian do in their ca-certificates
package. Debian say that the resultant CA certificate bundle is
licensed under the MPL, as its source in Mozilla is.
But can a database be copyrighted? Can a database made up of copies of
necessarily-public CA certificates published by third parties be
copyrighted? It is somewhat lacking in originality, which is one of
the requirements for US copyright law to apply, at least.
You may be better of asking a lawyer, unfortunately!
joe
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