Marcus Griep
2016-04-10 14:06:32 UTC
From what I see on Github, these pieces of software are GPL-licensed. As
such, CACert already has a valid licence to use the current version of the
software, and that is not something that the authors can unilaterally
revoke. What the authors can do is change the license for any future
versions of the software by making it proprietary or licensed under a
different license. However if the version CACert is using is GPL-licensed,
then CACert is free to fork the software under its own GPL-compliant
license.
Not legal advice, but I don't think you can do what you think you can do
here.
such, CACert already has a valid licence to use the current version of the
software, and that is not something that the authors can unilaterally
revoke. What the authors can do is change the license for any future
versions of the software by making it proprietary or licensed under a
different license. However if the version CACert is using is GPL-licensed,
then CACert is free to fork the software under its own GPL-compliant
license.
Not legal advice, but I don't think you can do what you think you can do
here.
Dear Community,
given recent events we, the authors behind the projects Cassiopeia and
Gigi, do no longer see any good reason to provide our software to such
hostile environment. As auditability does not seem to be the goal and
the legal grounds have just drastically worsened, we decided to make the
We, the authors of Cassiopeia and Gigi,
- Benny Baumann
- Felix Dörre
- Janis Streib
hereby declare, that use of our software within CAcert will have no
valid licence, and any use of it for the CAcert Community, and in
particular CAcert Board, will thus violate our copyright.
As a remedy we offer, to renegotiate the licence once the CAcert
Community proofs following international laws by passing an proper audit
and entered into mainstream system truststores.
Kind regards,
Benny Baumann
Felix Dörre
Janis Streib
(Authors of Cassiopeia and Gigi)
given recent events we, the authors behind the projects Cassiopeia and
Gigi, do no longer see any good reason to provide our software to such
hostile environment. As auditability does not seem to be the goal and
the legal grounds have just drastically worsened, we decided to make the
We, the authors of Cassiopeia and Gigi,
- Benny Baumann
- Felix Dörre
- Janis Streib
hereby declare, that use of our software within CAcert will have no
valid licence, and any use of it for the CAcert Community, and in
particular CAcert Board, will thus violate our copyright.
As a remedy we offer, to renegotiate the licence once the CAcert
Community proofs following international laws by passing an proper audit
and entered into mainstream system truststores.
Kind regards,
Benny Baumann
Felix Dörre
Janis Streib
(Authors of Cassiopeia and Gigi)