On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Eric Auer wrote: > And remember my original posts in this thread, or to be more > exact, the references from the Wikipedia article about the > licensing issue: > > http://sfconservancy.org/news/2013/aug/16/exfat-samsung/ > > "Conservancy is delighted that the correct outcome has been > reached: a legitimate, full release from Samsung of all > relevant source code under the terms of Linux's license, > the GPL, version 2." > > This does not tell whether you might have to pay licensing > fees when using a Linux with that driver for making some > embedded device, but for using it for interoperability in > a general operating system, I would be optimistic. Also, > nothing in the driver seems to talk about it and even in > Ubuntu, you have the driver in official repositories with > no special warnings about needing a license to use them. > > While I agree that further information would be welcome, > I am generally optimistic about possibilities for exFAT.
...prolly best still to leave it to the network redirector, and keep it out of the kernel proper, just in case. But perhaps it could be provided as a TSR; and a card reader, or such, treated as a floppy drive. Fixed letter, but when there's no card in the slot, Not ready reading drive X: Abort, Retry, Fail? -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
