CAcert Code Development list.

[Ian G <iang AT cacert.org>]

Dear Benny,

thank you for your notice.  It's receipt is acknowledged, and by 
presence in board mailing list.

As you know, this new committee will take some time to get its feet back 
on ground.  Could you assist us by providing the following two things:

1.  where/what is the licence under which the software was originally 
provided to CAcert?

2.  Where is the software in use or potentially in use or repo'd by CAcert?

iang

ps; we haven't had a meeting as yet, and I do not speak as board in this 
matter, but only as a committee member.  If a decision is required, 
we'll use the motions system.  But I'll add this issue to our (growing) 
agenda.



On 10/04/2016 13:48 pm, Benny Baumann wrote:
> 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
> following declaration:
>
>      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)