Re: A license needed for authentic/consistency purposes

[Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn at diwi dot org>]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2007, moayyad sadi wrote:
> my idea, Imagine that some one develop his own version of GnuPG
> that tells you that the signature is valid while it's not

That has nothing to do with "telling". You can go and check that the
code does what it says it does.

The same goes with Islamic software. Who says libitl computes correctly
prayer times? You have to check the code, the algorithms, the maths
behind it or you have to trust its author.

And such a code, while being authentic, can be buggy and lead to
mistakes. Is what you want a certification authority that will say "this
is authentic" and "this is not"?

> it's about the false impression given to the user
> my case to protect people from being victims of fraud
> which could be legal because of some license issue

I don't understand how you want to do it just by writing a license.
People can "not respect" the license with nobody being aware.

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Mohammed Adnène Trojette