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SCC Statement on SELinux Patent Issues

Posted by michael on from the patent-leather dept.

Hawke writes "Secure Computing has announced a Statement of Assurance that they will not use the patents in question to limit the availability of SELinux. They continue to say: 'However, Secure Computing does not extend the Assurance to software that merely interoperates with SELinux, or is merely included with a distribution of SELinux.'" The original story was here.

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  1. This raises the important question: by Krapangor · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If they won't gonna use the patents, why have they filed for them in first place ?
    Competitors aren't an argument because the publishing of the sources of SELinux according to the GPL would count as prior art.
    Did they want to troll RMS and Anal Cox or what else ?
    Or is this statement just a scam ?

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