Re: SELinux Dumb Questions

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:59:46PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> > On Monday 03 June 2002 04:13 pm, Haigh, Tom wrote:
> > > SELinux includes Type Enforcement technology developed and patented by
> > > the Secure Computing Corporation, who still holds rights to all
> > > commercial use of the technology.  Before a colo company, or anyone else
> > > uses the technology commercially, it will be necessary to negotiate a
> > > license with Secure Computing.  If anyone wants to do so, I can help get
> > > the ball rolling with our Legal and BD folks.
> 
> PS  When does the patent expire?  If it's due to expire in 1 year or less we 
> can just wait until it's gone...

I agree with Russell. This really had better be clarified. I believe it
is the intent of many on this list, myself included, to productize
systems based on SELinux.

It's either GPL or it ain't. Which is it? Do I drop my plans or continue?

PS: For my purposes, the BSD license will do just as well.




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