Licensing clarification

[c0r0n3r]

Could you please add license file to the project?

[marek22k]

You can copyright private keys?

[BenBE]

There is no license file for this project, as there's nothing you could reasonably document. Depending on jurisdiction, moon phase and mood of the lawyer's wife you are asking, you will find wildly different opinions.

That said, the keys in this repository are documented as a collection effort. No own copyright is assumed, but the documents associated with a private key (which is a set of numbers; and thus usually not covered by copyright) might be. Given this is a collection of such keys with somewhat editorial maintenance a fair use is assumed.

Given cryptographic keys are essentially raw data or facts generated by an algorithm, they are usually not copyrightable in itself. Instead the copyright would usually only apply to editorial contributions like the associated metadata and the structure of this collection.

And no, this is as formal as it will get.