[CA cert] Re: An apology and an announcement

["J. Wren Hunt" <wrenhunt AT hotmail.com>]

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Duane wrote:
|
| Firstly I apologies for my behaviour for what I can only describe as a
| monumental misunderstanding which I've been kicking myself all day
| about. I especially apologies to Greg, over the miscommunication and not
| being able to communicate the original intentions better.
|
| My actions were hasty and wrong and for that I'm sorry. My first mistake
| was in my email the other day, I worded it badly to say the least, and
| then things went from bad to worst based on presumptions. My question
| should have been what does a license such as the GPL hold over a license
| such as PGP source style one in this particular instance.
|
| The only practical difference between the two seems to be the ability
| for someone to compete with us using our code base. To answer those that
| suggest the code needs to continue living even in the event of CAcert
| dying, I still plan to assign copyright to CAcert once the new board is
| elected, so the simple answer to this is that a rule change of the
| Association be passed that says if CAcert dissolves, then copyright will
| automatically be assigned to the Free Software Foundation.
|
| So with that out of the way I'm happy to announce that we, as a
| community, can move forward in the direction of making the code
| available for inspection and to solicit contributions from the
| programming community to address new features, enhancements and yes,
| even bugs!
|
| The code will initially be available as a tar ball, and the code will be
| made available under a modified PGP license (See
| http://www.CAcert.org/src-lic.php for details). At this juncture I don't
| think that GPL is the best option for CAcert, as it would, in my
| opinion, only serve to allow ourselves to be undermined, and reduce our
| ability to advocate CAcert's inclusion in major browsers and other
| projects. Later decisions about license changes for the code will be up
| to the board, however I think the right thing to do now is move ahead
| with at least a compromise, rather then stay at a stand still.
|
| To facilitate feedback in the form of contributions, patch submissions
| and discussions in the technical community, a new Developer's list has
| been created: http://lists.cacert.org/mailman/listinfo/cacert-devel
|
| Those that already have access to the code, myself included, will take
| some time to review the code before the first tar ball is released, so I
| expect to be able to post a tar ball on the website at some stage next
| week.  Once this has happened, a link to the download will be placed on
| the CAcert site, and to the CAcert-devel list.
|


WAY TO GO DUANE! THANKS!!!!!! This is a super start IMHO!

Wren


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