Because it's a Patent (rather than a trade secret or copyright) issue, you ALSO have to be sure you don't do things the same way the patent does. That is still infringement even if you do it completely independently.
=================== David C. Kerber WRA in-house e-mail x-111 =================== > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercury Thirteen [mailto:mercury0x0...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 3:33 PM > To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for > freedos sdxc support and more? > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
