Re: Future FreeS/WAN users?

[Alexander S A Kjeldaas <Alexander.Kjeldaas@fast.no>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 10:20:58AM -0600, Mike Beede wrote:
> 
> > Slashdot reports the NSA have let a contract for a security-enhanced
> > Linux.
> > 
> > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000113/ca_secure__1.html
> > 
> > Somehow I suspect this code may not be open source.
> 
> Your suspicion, while reasonable, turns out to be wrong.  We are
> planning on putting up a more detailed explanation of our intentions
> in the next couple of days.  For now, suffice it to say that it's our
> intent to release under the GPL.  I'll notify the list when they put
> up the statement.  I believe it will focus on the project relative to
> the GPL.
> 
> Having a secure operating system available to the community will also
> benefit us, by giving us a non-proprietary platform for our security
> products.
> 

I see from your web-pages that you have a patent on Type
Enforcement. Could you elaborate a bit on that patent, how your Type
Enforcement patent compared to the Domain & Type Enforcement that TIS
worked on, and whether that patent will restrict the use of your GPLed
modifications to the Linux kernel?

astor

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