From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzswing.ncsc.mil (jazzswing.ncsc.mil [144.51.68.65]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA17086 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:10:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazzswing.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id OAA22859 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:10:00 GMT Received: from crisium.vnl.com (crisium.vnl.com [194.46.8.33]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id OAA22855 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:09:59 GMT Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:15:38 +0100 From: Dale Amon To: Ed Street Cc: "'Russell Coker'" , selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: A 'Statement of Assurance' on SELinux patents Message-ID: <20020806141538.GB28198@vnl.com> References: <20020806130209.AF3FB25D@lyta.coker.com.au> <000f01c23d4a$e938e750$0a01a8c0@ed> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <000f01c23d4a$e938e750$0a01a8c0@ed> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov 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. -- You have received this message because you are subscribed to the selinux list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.