Martin Helm wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2012, 14:44:07 schrieb Anders Johansson:
According to wikipedia, ExFAT is patent protected, which might mean it is something we can't ship even in the build service, much like media codecs
I'm not sure what the status is, but it's probably something legal should be looking at before the first lawsuit comes
Anders
That's a different story and you can contact the person who built it about your concerns and that it should be removed to a place where it is no problem (like packman). The OP can still build it from the google code project which I also cited if he lives in the 90% of the world (as i do) where such patents are invalid.
Excellent stuff :) So where is google code hosted? Why hasn't Larry Page been arrested? Does the link you provided, Martin, mean that the mailing list will be taken down for providing links to illegal content? I don't suppose there's any chance at all that the FLOSS community would treat this as an opportunity and get together to make sure that some open-source filesystem was completely supported on every platform and then push it for everbody to use as a royalty-free alternative. Just one alternative mind you, not a whole gaggle of competing filesystems. :-P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org