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 LAA18447 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:50:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazzswing.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id PAA28980 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:49:17 GMT Received: from sendmail (savages.net [12.154.202.18]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id PAA28976 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:49:16 GMT Message-ID: <3D4FEFAE.2010308@pcez.com> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 08:47:58 -0700 From: Shaun Savage MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell Coker CC: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: A 'Statement of Assurance' on SELinux patents References: <000f01c23d4a$e938e750$0a01a8c0@ed> <20020806141841.8278925D@lyta.coker.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - savages@savages.net iD8DBQE9T++Wn6I06Opz+XURAj+TAKCvI0GmCMNvEZsKQhCNrJN3CpG1IACdEc16 n4ldioVaJfuyHpOyJ8XjwjU= =HYHP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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.