Re: A 'Statement of Assurance' on SELinux patents

[Shaun Savage <savages@pcez.com>]

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I have retained an law firm to handle this issue for me.   I stated I 
was releasing a firewall, router based on NSA SELinux mid in 2001, 
before  the "assurance" came out.  The product is GPL complient, all 
source is avaiable, except for the configuration software, cacheing DNS, 
web/SOAP server, and snort alert anaysis program.  I plan to releases it 
for use in small school districts and advance home users.  I have even 
released the Compressed Block Device (CBD) driver GPL, It reduces the 
system size so that I can fix the whole system into 8M flash.  I have 
spent a year working on this project.

Shaun


Russell Coker wrote:

|On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:12, Ed Street wrote:
|
|>Well that's logical.  If you sell the rights to something you no longer
|>have control over the licensing of that product.
|
|
|No.  It is quite possible to sell things and keep control.  SCC can sell a
|product containing their patented code while keeping control over the 
patent,
|so it is just as easy for them to sell the patent while excluding certain
|types of use.
|
|>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.
|
|
|Who would want to do that?  The NSA appear to believe that they have 
already
|paid for all necessary rights, so naturally they will not want to pay twice
|(also such a payment would be regarded as an admission of guilt).
|
|I won't give SCC a cent, will you?
|

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