Bug#687693: ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Shuler
Control: tags -1 wontfix On 11/04/2012 03:23 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > I hereby grant you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to eat > cheese with salami, subject to the following conditions: > > - You do not use the name of debian-legal while talking with food in your >mouth.

Bug#687693: ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing

2012-11-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 02:56:27PM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: > Among other suggestions, Francesco Poli recommended including a verbatim > copy of this license. You should not. If the license has no legal force, you should not propagate it and give people the impression that it does. > > The C

Bug#687693: ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Shuler
I meant to include a note that I'm fine with not removing CAcert from ca-certificates, as long as there is consensus with a) include the license in d/copyright, or b) ignore it (for now). We can work on this after wheezy, when we can add another package, if that is what we need to do. Sorry if th

Bug#687693: ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Shuler
On 11/03/2012 08:15 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 03:28:08PM -0500, Michael Shuler wrote: >> After reading the -legal thread, comments above, the CAcert mailing list >> thread, the Fedora explanation, and carefully reading the licensing >> myself, the cautious side of me says

Bug#687693: ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing

2012-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 03:28:08PM -0500, Michael Shuler wrote: > Control: severity -1 serious > Control: tags -1 pending > (Setting to serious, due to policy violation) > After reading the -legal thread, comments above, the CAcert mailing list > thread, the Fedora explanation, and carefully read

Bug#687693: ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing

2012-11-03 Thread Michael Shuler
Control: severity -1 serious Control: tags -1 pending (Setting to serious, due to policy violation) After reading the -legal thread, comments above, the CAcert mailing list thread, the Fedora explanation, and carefully reading the licensing myself, the cautious side of me says the right thing to

Bug#687693: ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing

2012-09-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Raphael Geissert: > 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? If we take CA certificate license sta

Bug#687693: ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing

2012-09-16 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:35:09 -0500 Raphael Geissert wrote: > Hi everyone, Hello Raphael, > > mejiko: thanks for pointing it out, I'm forwarding your report to our > debian-legal mailing list to seek their opinion. Thanks for asking. Please note that you may receive multiple and possibly diff

Bug#687693: ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing

2012-09-15 Thread mejiko
Package: ca-certificates Version: 20090814+nmu3squeeze1 Severity: normal Hello. ca-certificates packeages included Cacert Root certificates. This certificates licensed under Cacert Root Distribution License (RDL). I think that Cacert RDL is DFSG-free. (Permissive/BSD-like License ?) Suggests: