CAcert Code Development list.

[Benny Baumann <benbe AT cacert.org>]

Dear Ian,

Am 10.04.2016 um 15:01 schrieb Ian G:
> 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?
The software was intended to be provided compatible to the current
CAcert Source Code licence.
> 
> 2.  Where is the software in use or potentially in use or repo'd by CAcert?
The software is not used on any CAcert systems.

There is a repository at
https://github.com/CAcertOrg/cacert-cassiopeia
https://github.com/CAcertOrg/cacert-gigi
which both only cover the most basic repository setup. Referenced
repositories in that network are personal repositories of the authors.

The only source code referenced in there has long been replaced and
amended non-trivially by the authors mentioned in my previous mail. Thus
all rights on the current code are with the authors, who took this
decision to not offer or grant a licence to the CAcert Community and
CAcert Inc. any more.

There currently is no active licence to Cassiopeia or Gigi to CAcert;
there only was the offer based on the GPLv2 which has - given this
decision was amended to not apply to CAcert anymore.

This decision can be backed by German copyright law, because the authors
retain the right to choose whom they are giving out licences to.

The use of CAcert's trademarks and other protected works, resulting from
the initial intent for this software being used in the context of
CAcert, will be resolved by removing such references by the authors
ASAP. We'll notify as soon as that cleanup is performed.

> 
> 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.
No such decision is needed as CAcert currently does not have such
licence, and given this decision will - at the current time - not
receive such licence as noted in the previous mails. This item is purely
to be acknowledged by the current committee and stated on the public
lists for maximum transparency.
> 
> 
> 
> 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)
>>
>

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