Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:
> Since sometimes there are some licensing concerns with the certdata.txt 
> file, I wanted to know exactly what one is allowed to do. If for example 
> by merely extracting the CA certificates with a tool like 
> http://curl.haxx.se/lxr/source/lib/mk-ca-bundle.pl still requires the 
> resulting CA bundle to be bound to the tri-license of Mozilla? Or can I 
> simply extract all CA certificates from the browser by exporting them?

I think the correct position is that the certdata.txt file is data used 
by Mozilla, rather than part of the browser itself. It's a grey area.

The copyright in the certificates technically rests with the CAs, but it 
would be a very strange CA which forbade you from shipping their 
certificate in your product. I'm not sure what the legal position would 
be there.

Gerv
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