> > - There are allegedly licensing issues associated with redistributing the > > root. > > It's really neither here nor there considering all the other issues, > but when you mentioned this I was expecting their terms to be totally > off the wall. > > http://www.cacert.org/policy/RootDistributionLicense.php > > That's actually pretty sane to me. Basically the BSD license. It is > true, however, that we aren't in compliance. Whether or not a root > cert can be copyrighted, that at least would be an easy problem to > rectify. But it's really the least of our concerns, I think.
Well, I think it is bullshit. They are copyrighting a number created by a piece of software, wrapped inside a standardized container. I've got a file containing the number 1. Don't you dare...
