Secure Computing statement of assurance

Secure Computing has reviewed the concerns expressed by the open source
community about SELinux and certain Secure Computing patents.  We understand
that considerable effort has been invested in SELinux, with the expectation
that SELinux would be available for everyone's use.  On the other hand, it
is the policy of Secure Computing to retain and enforce its rights in all of
its patents and other intellectual property.  In this case, we have decided
to make an exception to that policy, and to support the reasonable
expectations of the open source community.  For this reason, we are
extending an assurance to the open source community that Secure Computing
will not use the patents in question to limit the availability of SELinux.  
Our assurance is subject to certain limitations that we believe are
consistent with the spirit of open source.  We know that we have caused
confusion addressing this issue in the past, so we want to be as clear as
possible in resolving the issue.  We have developed a Statement of Assurance
to provide that clarity.  The Statement of Assurance summarizes the scope of
our assurance to the community, as well as the limits of that assurance.
The Statement of Assurance may be found at
http://www.securecomputing.com/pdf/Statement_of_Assurance.pdf
<http://www.securecomputing.com/pdf/Statement_of_Assurance.pdf>   We hope
you will agree that the Statement of Assurance is both reasonable and clear.

We thank you for your patience while we worked to resolve this issue and
hope you will feel that your patience has been rewarded.

Regards,

Secure Computing Corporation