Your message dated Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:35:09 -0500 with message-id <201209151235.10044.geiss...@debian.org> has caused the report #687693, regarding ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) debian-le...@lists.debian.org
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--- Begin Message ---Hi everyone, mejiko: thanks for pointing it out, I'm forwarding your report to our debian-legal mailing list to seek their opinion. On Saturday 15 September 2012 03:15:10 mejiko wrote: [...] > ca-certificates packeages included Cacert Root certificates. > This certificates licensed under Cacert Root Distribution License (RDL). [...] > http://www.cacert.org/policy/RootDistributionLicense.php > https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-policy/2012-02/msg00031.html > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CACert_Root_Distribution_License TL;RD; RDL looks non-free, Philipp Dunkel from CAcert says Debian is fine (to distribute) because of the disclaimer re the certificates included in ca- certificates, Fedora says it is non-free. What do the others think about it? To me, it doesn't just seem to be a (re-)distribution issue. Rather, the need for an additional agreement with CAcert. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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