Re: Sorry, read this one: Re: SELinux Dumb Questions

[Tom <tom@lemuria.org>]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:51:53AM -0600, McFadden, Ken wrote:
> I agree, and I agree with allot of the emails I've been reading....But
> the bottom line is if there is an infringement then the NSA will pull 
> SELinux off their web site and be replaced with a version without SCC
> source.....We will continue with a GPL version of SELinux along with
> adding what SCC removed to the to-do list.....

We can't. See, if they'd merely hold the copyright to some code, we
could just rewrite that part. However, patents do explicitly extend to
indepentent implementations since they cover an IDEA, not as copyright
does an EXPRESSION.

That's the true evil of software patents. He who lives closer to the
patent office wins.

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