Hi Rugxulo, as mentioned earlier in this thread, generic operating systems are allowed to implement VFAT (FAT32 and LFN) without fees, so I would not be too worried about those two more years. Regarding LTOOLS quality: This thing is ancient and of course it supports only ext2, not ext3 or ext4. It is probably better to use the source of VMSMOUNT as basis for TSR drivers for exFAT access :-)
Note that HPFS is owned by Microsoft (written while OS/2 still was by MS and IBM together) and HFS+ is owned by Apple, so if you want to be totally safe license-wise, you should use ext2. I would not use more modern Linux filesystems, as you probably need a TSR of several 100 kB to support those ;-) Regarding nasty integers above 32 bits: No worries, as long as we do not support GPT, we only support 2^32 sectors in MBR :-p Also, you can of course use 64 bit data types in DOS software. I agree that OpenWatcom would be nicer than Borland C++ here. Not sure if Pascal would be nice for TSR drivers: You can do it (see keyboard driver) but the extra effort is that you have to translate existing filesystem code which probably is in C. Remember that the Samsung code carefully got GPL-ed together with some licensing experts after the initial accidental code publication. You can have open source drivers for things that need licenses to use, those things do not exclude each other. In any case: Do not panic. At the moment, you are insisting to deprive DOS of a feature that Linux has had for years. In spite of having a much larger market share, nobody sued Linux either. If anything, you may worry about having to get a license if the DOS driver gets used in some embedded / appliance device, such as a camera. Even then, the camera manufacturer would have to get the license. The blame would still not be on DOS itself. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
