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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


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