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