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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. To sum up by flacco · · Score: 4, Funny
    So, let's see - an operating system produced by the NSA, with the threat of future patent claims on its core technology.

    Where do I sign up?

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