> Expanding on what Kevin said, > https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/mtl/exfat-licensing.aspx > suggests that (a) exFAT is still patented and restricted as before, > and (b) GPLv2 licensing was granted only for the Linux kernel module > that they submitted. > > The BSD License grants the ability to use BSD-licensed code in > commercial products, so I'm not sure that Microsoft would want to > relax their licensing for us. As Kevin said, IANAL. > Yeah, IANAL either. My quick read of the blog post may have been overly optimistic. Perhaps the Foundation could help?
I brought this topic up because I think a lot of people could benefit the cross-platform compatibility that this would provide. -- Greg _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
