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Re: Mass bug filing: Cryptographic protection against modification



I wrote:
> The question should not arise: I see no way that a public key could be
> copyrightable.

Florian Weimer writes:
> Is it acceptable to ignore obnoxious but unenforceable license terms when
> evaluating licenses for DFSG compliance?

It's certainly legal.  It's up to debian-legal to decide if it is
acceptable.  

I assumed that the question was about keys distributed with no license at
all.  In my IANAL opinion they need none as they are not copyrightable.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI



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