Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755110Ab3IYWCO (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:02:14 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:45705 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752399Ab3IYWCM (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:02:12 -0400 Message-ID: <52435CF2.7070604@ahsoftware.de> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:00:18 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130712 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anton Altaparmakov CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman , STAGING SUBSYSTEM , Matthew Garrett , Benjamin Valentin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver References: <20130830124622.5f81b7d4@rechenknecht2k7> <20130830154205.GA1411@kroah.com> <20130925183632.08a0d073@rechenknecht2k7> <20130925172704.GB5258@kroah.com> <20130925183235.GA9659@srcf.ucam.org> <20130925184539.GA4208@kroah.com> <52433978.9050302@ahsoftware.de> <20130925202151.GA6149@kroah.com> <57387214-F138-4471-996E-3FB1ED28346C@cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <57387214-F138-4471-996E-3FB1ED28346C@cam.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1057 Lines: 26 Am 25.09.2013 23:44, schrieb Anton Altaparmakov: > Hi, > > On 25 Sep 2013, at 21:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:28:56PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: >>> >>> Maybe a silly question, but isn't exFAT protected by some MS owned >>> patents which might drive Linux users into the hand of MS lawyers as >>> already happened with FAT? > > Yes, it is. You cannot use exFAT without a Microsoft patent license (unless you live in countries without software patents perhaps). That part about software patents is a farce. Here in Germany (and as I understood in whole Europe), software patents should not exist. But the FAT patent got approved by our Bungesgerichtshof, which is something like the Federal Supreme court in the US. Regards, Alexander Holler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/