As I'm sure several of you are aware, about a year ago the SFC assisted Samsung in releasing the exfat kernel module as GPL. ( http://sfconservancy.org/news/2013/aug/16/exfat-samsung/)
What's not mentioned there is Microsoft's hand in this whole situation. Apparently Microsoft holds a patent on exfat or something.( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/iplicensing/programs/exfatfilesystem.aspx ) Samsung releases this code, under GPL, but there are concerns about distributing this as Microsoft actually owns a patent on it. Can anyone clarify how this might be handled as far as distributing source and binaries for this? It would be my understanding that since its GPL, as long as you are within the license, you're fine.
