Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Florian Weimer wrote:I've digged a bit more, and VeriSign actually has a license governing the *use* of their certificates (including the root and intermediate certificates): <https://www.verisign.com/repository/rpa.html> The license seems to violate DFSG §6. It also fails the Desert Island test.Can we all say: "EEEEWWWWWW!" In this case I believe we had better hope that the certificates are not copyrightable. I don't think public keys are by any stretch.
In some countries (USA and Germany?) lists/databases are copyrightable, even is single data is not! (phone book, games scores and statistics,...) ciao cate