Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 23:01:11 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Susie Ward <sward@voltage.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SecureBSD (Was: Re: Firewalls and the endless story!) Message-ID: <20000705230111.D795@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007052152100.44038-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:53:05PM -0700 References: <20000705214847.B631@dialin-client.earthlink.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007052152100.44038-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:53:05PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > I don't see why you can't read the code. To my knowledge, none of the > > methods or algorithms have been patented by the SecureBSD > > people. Nothing to stop one from writing their own implementation of > > the same processes. Or have they gone for some patents? > > If I read the code, and then inadvertently use some concepts in my own > code they can try and claim it as a derived work and do nasty things to > me. You can't copyright a concept. So I ask, did they get some patents? I did not see specific mention in the license of any new patents. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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