It doesn't necessarily need to be public in the global sense, but it is public in the sense of "you can't rely on keeping it secret as a security boundary". Since its used to validate the signature, it will usually need…
Free software doesn't need to be copyleft, which is what you're describing - eg, the FSF explicitly considers 3 clause BSD to be a free license. Similarly Open Source (as used by the OSI) doesn't require that you can…
Would you be willing to link your ML layout?
Not disagreeing we've moved on from it a bit in some places, but.. "Everything is a file" never meant "everything is a disk file" - think of std{in,out,err} or network sockets. The implications are more around having a…
It doesn't necessarily need to be public in the global sense, but it is public in the sense of "you can't rely on keeping it secret as a security boundary". Since its used to validate the signature, it will usually need…
Free software doesn't need to be copyleft, which is what you're describing - eg, the FSF explicitly considers 3 clause BSD to be a free license. Similarly Open Source (as used by the OSI) doesn't require that you can…
Would you be willing to link your ML layout?
Not disagreeing we've moved on from it a bit in some places, but.. "Everything is a file" never meant "everything is a disk file" - think of std{in,out,err} or network sockets. The implications are more around having a…