Hi, On 10/09/2015 11:36 AM, Gorny Krystian wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question regarding the VFAT patent (EP 0 618 540) owned by > Microsoft. It’s about common name space for long and short filenames. I > have read that this patent was canceled by Germany / EU, but it’s still > available in the US right? So is there a patch/option where we can > activate to avoid this patent?
I am not a lawyer, but wouldn't it be easier not to use VFAT? The only reason I would use it, would be because the bootloader of my SoC would only be able to boot over FAT/FAT32 from a managed flash. A patch will not help here as well;) There are rumors that a fix was implemented a long time ago[1] ;) > > Thanks > > Krystian > Regards, Robert [1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/07/vfat-linux-patch-could-circumvent-microsofts-patent-claims/ > > Legal information: > Wipotec Wiege- und Positioniersysteme GmbH > HRB 2317 Kaiserslautern, Management: T. Düppre, U. Wagner > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. > If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in > error) > please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. Any > unauthorized > copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is > strictly > forbidden. > Since you are concerned about legal issues you might also want to remove this footer when posting to public lists ;) > > -- > ..."Rules of Optimization: Rule1: Don't do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet." - M.A. Jackson (not the singer) My public pgp key is available,at: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x90320BF1 -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
