I didn't say you should copy/paste the driver. But by all means, using it as a reference and writing an identically functioning driver is 100% legal.
Hence I don't get the point of having "Experts" in FAT come and write an independent driver, or use some other non-Windows driver as reference/source. In fact, legally, I move that if ReactOS were to strip out 70% of the FastFAT code (totally likely, since the driver is legitimately bloated for things ReactOS doesn't even need to worry about yet), you could add the other 30% *as is*. I believe this work was already started by one of Aleksey's russian guys, but seems to have been dropped... On 29-Jul-09, at 4:47 PM, Steven Edwards wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Alex Ionescu<[email protected]> > wrote: >> I'm still at a loss as to why you are all ignoring the free, open >> source, >> FastFAT driver in the Microsoft WDK. > > Speaking just for myself, its not clear to me what in the aggregate of > the WDK is actually 'free' and which is just there for reference > purposes. I mean it could be perfectly fine and dandy for us to use > it, but without the ablity to do proper due diligence, it does not > seem to be worth it. Given the history of the fat patent mess, this > should seem perfectly clear. > > Until Microsoft has the desire to clearly lay out for us what is safe > to use in an open source project and what is not, I don't see why its > worth the risk. > > -- > Steven Edwards > > "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and > that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev Best regards, Alex Ionescu _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
