As far as I am aware, there shouldn't be any licensing issues on the FOSS side about including a government-granted key in the distribution. There are severe technical issues, which may impact licensing, in keeping the government-granted key a secret. Since the last bit is the important part, as far as the government key-granter is concerned, it becomes a problem. The nature of FOSS doesn't prevent people from making derivatives of the software and use the same key, which is also a problem as far as the government key-granter is concerned.
There are also philosophical issues with creating FOSS software you can't change without breaking functionality, which the government-granted key-branding of authorized software would do. From the government key-grantor's perspective, changing the software invalidates the key, even if there isn't any way for them to tell. If it's illegal to use an invalid key (or a key from a different software package), then merely doing what FOSS is intended to allow you to do is breaking the law. If there's no way to modify a piece of FOSS software legally, is it really FOSS? I think not. On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 12:40 PM Adonay Felipe Nogueira < adf...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > Just to make usre that I'm clear: My last message about keeping *my* > mouth closed was a way to tell that *I* won't comment on that for now > because I'd still have to study and gather proof. That is: That message > was not meant to be harsh towards someone. > > I hope this helps. :) > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.