Just because there is a legal license doesn't mean any money was involved. It could have been granted free for PR purposes, there might have been some kind of cross-licensing agreement, or there might be some restrictive conditions on its use.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Bret Johnson [mailto:bretj...@juno.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 7:59 PM > To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for > freedos sdxc support and more? > > It's very interesting that Linux appears to have a legitimately > licensed implementation, which I think means they had to pay some money > to MS? Could that license (via GPL?) perhaps be extended to downstream > implementations based on it, like FreeDOS? > > The licensing implications are certainly a consideration, though less > of a concern to me than the technical piece of it. The main thing I > would like to see in a DOS implementation would be the flexibility to > do "plug-and-play" with the disks. The main need for this would of > course be USB disks, but could also apply to any other type of > removable media that may come down the pike (for example, DVD-RAMs > which can be formatted with hard drive file systems like FAT32 and > exFAT). > > At a minimum, this would mean that the functionality would need to > exist in the OS (or in a device driver / TSR of some sort) even if no > exFAT disk was found at boot time (or when the driver was installed). > In addition, there should be some sort of system call to identify that > the functionality is installed so other software would know whether > it's OK to mount the exFAT volume(s) when new media is inserted. > ____________________________________________________________ > Want to place your ad here? > Advertise on United Online > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/56033d0b9e4c3d0a34d1st04vuc > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! > Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools > in one place. > SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
