From: Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>
To: Ed Street <blacknet@simplyaquatics.com>
Cc: "'Russell Coker'" <russell@coker.com.au>, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: A 'Statement of Assurance' on SELinux patents
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:15:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020806141538.GB28198@vnl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000f01c23d4a$e938e750$0a01a8c0@ed>
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:12:26AM -0400, Ed Street wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Well that's logical. If you sell the rights to something you no longer
> have control over the licensing of that product. BTW has anyone
> actually attempted to purchase the patent that applies to Selinux? All
> that would be needed is to purchase the rights to use it in Selinux but
> not the complete patent.
>
But in GPL'd code I can lift a code fragment from anywhere, join it
with code fragments from any other GPL'd source, and my own and come
up with a totally new GPL'd application. So it would be a rather broad
license.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-06 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-06 1:35 A 'Statement of Assurance' on SELinux patents Erich Allewohl
2002-08-06 3:48 ` Ed Street
2002-08-06 13:02 ` Russell Coker
2002-08-06 13:12 ` Ed Street
2002-08-06 14:15 ` Dale Amon [this message]
2002-08-06 14:32 ` Ed Street
2002-08-06 14:18 ` Russell Coker
2002-08-06 15:47 ` Shaun Savage
2002-08-07 3:21 ` Ben McGinnes
2002-08-07 12:38 ` James Griffin
2002-08-07 19:56 ` JW
2002-08-08 13:53 ` Ben McGinnes
2002-08-08 14:22 ` Russell Coker
2002-08-08 14:40 ` Joshua D. Guttman
2002-08-08 19:08 ` Edward J. Huff
2002-08-10 0:31 ` Ben McGinnes
2002-08-09 1:36 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-06 12:57 ` Russell Coker
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