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On Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:39:31 -0000, KY Srinivasan said:

> Let me dig up the details here.

In case this helps clarify the chain of events, the code in question
is the Samsung code mentioned here, updated to 5.2 kernel....

=22We know that Microsoft has done patent troll shakedowns in the past on=
 Linux
products related to the exfat filesystem. While we at Conservancy were
successful in getting the code that implements exfat for Linux released u=
nder
GPL (by Samsung), that code has not been upstreamed into Linux. So, Micro=
soft
has not included any patents they might hold on exfat into the patent
non-aggression pact.=22

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/oct/10/microsoft-oin-exfat/
=20
(Link in that para points here):
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2013/aug/16/exfat-samsung/


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