We could undercut the competition and make our own free FAT implementation which does fills the same niche as exFAT.
On 9/24/2015 3:22 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > My understanding is similar to Bret's. Also, I understand the exFAT > implementation on Android and other platforms was derived and licensed > from Microsoft. It is patent-encumbered, and therefore cannot be > merged with FreeDOS (or any code distributed under the GNU GPL, for > example.) I would be very concerned about any effort to put exFAT > support directly into the FreeDOS kernel. > > However, doing a little googling, I found that this developer has > created an exFAT reader as a separately-loaded driver: > http://www.mdgx.com/secrets.htm#XFAT > > > If you want exFAT support in FreeDOS, I would use that. > > But include exFAT in FreeDOS? I don't think so; I prefer to avoid the lawsuit. > > > Jim > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
