[Fedora-legal-list] CAcert.org license

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 12:57 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For the following review :
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474549
> 
> I would need to know if the "Non Related Persons Disclaimer and
> Licence" under which the CAcert root certificates files are is
> acceptable for Fedora or not. Full text here :
> http://www.cacert.org/policy/NRPDisclaimerAndLicence.php
> 
> What I see is that it only really applies to liability, and doesn't
> cover modifications since those wouldn't make much sense. What does
> bother me somewhat is the last part of the "License" section : "You may
> NOT distribute certificates or root keys under this licence, nor make
> representation about them." as well as the fact that liability might be
> transferred to the Fedora Project if the certificates are shipped in
> the distribution.

Yeah, so this would be a Content license rather than a software license.
Given that it does not give permission for us to redistribute (the
cornerstone requirement for Content licenses), this license is not
acceptable for Fedora.

~spot