Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Florian Weimer wrote:
I've digged a bit more, and VeriSign actually has a license governing
the *use* of their certificates (including the root and intermediate
certificates):
https://www.verisign.com/repository/rpa.html
The license seems to violate DFSG §6. It
Giacomo A. Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
In some countries (USA and Germany?) lists/databases are copyrightable,
even is single data is not! (phone book, games scores and statistics,...)
Don't you mean protected by the Database Directive, which is not the
same thing as copyright: it has a much
Florian Weimer wrote:
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I've digged a bit more, and VeriSign actually has a license governing
the *use* of their certificates (including the root and intermediate
certificates):
https://www.verisign.com/repository/rpa.html
The license seems to violate DFSG §6. It also fails the
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:52:39PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've digged a bit more, and VeriSign actually has a license governing
the *use* of their certificates (including the root and intermediate
certificates):
* Niklas Vainio:
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:52:39PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
There's an interesting question. Is a public key copyrightable? In other
words, does VeriSign have any legal grounds to restrict use of their
public keys at all?
My understanding is that copyright laws speak
* Russ Allbery:
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've digged a bit more, and VeriSign actually has a license governing
the *use* of their certificates (including the root and intermediate
certificates):
https://www.verisign.com/repository/rpa.html
The license seems to violate
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've digged a bit more, and VeriSign actually has a license governing
the *use* of their certificates (including the root and intermediate
certificates):
https://www.verisign.com/repository/rpa.html
The license seems to violate DFSG §6. It also
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There's an interesting question. Is a public key copyrightable? In other
words, does VeriSign have any legal grounds to restrict use of their
public keys at all?
They might do in some jurisdictions, but I would guess that in most
they don't. The public key is
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:52:39PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
There's an interesting question. Is a public key copyrightable? In other
words, does VeriSign have any legal grounds to restrict use of their
public keys at all?
My understanding is that copyright laws speak about original works
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