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Re: cacerts file
- From: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
- To: gnustuff at thisiscool dot com
- Cc: Marco Trudel <marco at mtsystems dot ch>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:33:30 +0100
- Subject: Re: cacerts file
- References: <VPNIRMRPZXIE2UPL97GEMLNJ76MKNHOJ.4739c67f@parallels>
Hi Mohan,
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 09:45 -0600, Mohan Embar wrote:
> >Yes, Sun supports a, till recently, undocumented keystore format (JKS)
> >which we cannot read (the code is out there now, so it could in
> >principle be added).
>
> Is this code GPLed? If so, I don't see how it could be incorporated
> since both Classpath and libgcj use the GPL + static linking exception.
I should have been more precise. There are actually two implementations
out there. One created by reverse engineering, which FSF legal advised
to not adopt for a GNU project to stay out of trouble (although they
said someone else could implement it just using the description):
http://www.metastatic.org/source/JKS.html
Now that the reference implementation is published under the GPL we can
ask if we can just adopt Casey's work directly if someone is interested
in integrating it.
The other implementation is of course the one in OpenJDK, which is under
GPL+exception, but locked to v2 (no or later option). Which makes
adoption a little uneasy since we do want to eventually upgrade to v3
(although on the other hand we are now still at v2, or later, to make
cooperation easier through for example icedtea).
Cheers,
Mark