I'm sorry to dig up an ancient thread. May somebody deliver a fresh opinion on this
subject, considering that the CAcert Official Document (or "COD") 14, known as
the 'CACert Root Distribution License' (or "RDL"), and referenced on the
Fedora Licensing page [1], and in more details on [2], went from 10-Jul-2010 DRAFT [3] to
31-Jul-2014 POLICY [4], as well as also replaced by itself the now obsolete 'CAcert
Non-Related Persons Disclaimer and License', see it mentioned on [1], again. It
renders [1] and [2] slightly outdated.
Moreover, on 30-Oct-2011 to the Talk:[2] page referenced thereof, was added a detailed
explanation of how CAcert works and how the CA business works; [and that the] conclusions
[were] based on false assumption that the Root is Software.
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
[2]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CACert_Root_Distribution_License
Talk:[2]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Licensing/CACert_Root_Distribution_Li...
[3]
http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/Policies/Agreements/RootDistributionLicense....
[4]
http://www.cacert.org/policy/RootDistributionLicense.html
Disclosure: I am a CAcert Certified Assurer. CAcert Inc now licenses its documents back
again under open CC-by-sa+DRP license [*].
[*]
https://wiki.cacert.org/Policy#Licence