On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 03:32:57PM +0530, Mahesh Pai wrote: > On 10/11/05, Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> wrote: > > See http://lwn.net/Articles/2376/ . > > According to LWN (and other websites which have taken LWN as a > > source), there may be a patent-time bomb affecting SELinux: Secure > > Computing Corporation, who wrote a significant part of SELinux, holds > > patents on it, but doesn't give a clear-cut license, only a > > retractable statement that they don't intend to sue anybody except a > > few usage classes. > But, the patents have been implemented by the patent holder themselves > in software, and the software is released under the GNU GPL? and the > GNU GPL does contain a clause for grant of patent license. So, what is > the problem? That's not what /usr/share/doc/libselinux/copyright says on my system. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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