[SAC] purchase of cert to sign windows applications

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 25-10-16 02:55, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Breaking out an new email thread for this (it is time critical for
> GeoServer 2.10 release). The GeoServer release is scheduled for Oct
> 26th, this bug just came up in the test of our release candidate a few
> days ago...
> 
> I would like to request a certificate to be used for signing windows
> applications (GeoServer, QGIS, OSGeo4Win, etc...).  The cost appears to
> be <https://www.digicert.com/code-signing/code-signing.htm> around $200
> USD a year.
> 
> Related tickets:
> - https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1813
> - https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-7812 

We (as QGIS) also had Larry asked to use/buy a (mac only?) certificate
to sign our QGIS binaries for Mac. Not sure what the status is for that
though.
@Larry did we/you buy something in the end?

I think for OSGeo it is a wise thing to be the signer of all GeoFOSS.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde