On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 3:41 AM Carmel NY <carmel_ny at outlook.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 18:51:41 -0700, Adam Weinberger stated: > > . . . > > 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. > > > > > ># Adam > > > > I imagine that someone could actually inquire. It would cost nothing > > and end this FUD that is surrounding this subject. > > > > http://aka.ms/celaiplicensing > > > On my phone the site displays a "Contoso, Ltd." title (That's Microsoft's > pretend company for all it's examples). The IP Address resolves to a > seemingly non-Microsoft server: waws-prod-bay-059.cloudapp.net > [23.99.91.55]. To boot, there is no corporate branding or other links back > to the Microsoft site. Forgive me, but it seems like a terrible idea to > submit information to that site. It seems poor form on Microsoft's part in several respects, but the page at: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/iplicensing/default.aspx has a link for "process of obtaining a license". Guess where it goes: http://aka.ms/celaiplicensing The earlier "Contact a licensing executive" link on the page also goes there. Both of those are under the "Learn More about Patent Licensing" section of the page. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar) _______________________________________________ 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"
