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 JAA13000 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:58:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazzswing.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id NAA22233 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:58:19 GMT Received: from ics.com (ics.com [216.112.183.3]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id NAA22229 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:58:18 GMT Message-ID: <3D09F65D.151442E4@ics.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:57:49 -0400 From: Robert Hartley MIME-Version: 1.0 To: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: What is the story on patents and SELinux? References: <3D098B97.7030903@evoworks.evoserve.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------1C110C8ACA53D7207C711C4D" Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1C110C8ACA53D7207C711C4D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can code be freed by the GPL, but still tied up in patent stuff? I guess everyone saw this article referenced on slashdot: http://lwn.net/Articles/2376/ (Sorry if I missed previous posts on the subject.) While working on Eclipse for an IBM partner, I was warned that anything we release into the open source community causes us to relinquish all rights to it, so we had to be careful not to let out, even accidently, any code or other proprietary information lest we lose all claims over it due to the wording of the GPL. Robert --------------1C110C8ACA53D7207C711C4D Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="rhartley.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Robert Hartley Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rhartley.vcf" begin:vcard n:Hartley;Robert tel;fax:617-621-9555 tel;work:617-621-0060 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.ics.com/ org:Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS);Engineering version:2.1 email;internet:robert.hartley@ics.com title:Systems Engineer adr;quoted-printable:;;Sixth Floor=0D=0A201 Broadway;Cambridge;MA;02139;USA x-mozilla-cpt:;7328 fn:Robert Hartley end:vcard --------------1C110C8ACA53D7207C711C4D-- -- 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.