On 8/6/20 5:47 PM, Bryan Steele wrote:
On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 02:16:11PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
With Microsoft's release of the [exFAT] spec last year, is the path open for
kernel support now, when someone gets around to it?
I don't know the details, but I believe one issue with exFAT has been
Microsoft and software patents, not just available documentation. Linux
may eventually get a kernel implementation but I'm not sure that helps
us.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-readies-exfat-patents-for-linux-and-open-source/
The license as published tries very hard to restrict use only to "Linux
systems."
There are two sentences that ****might**** allow additional licenses.
Lawyer$$$$ would be involved.
geoff steckel
