From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 63C8BE00A8C; Fri, 9 Oct 2015 11:30:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, SPF_HELO_PASS,WEIRD_PORT autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -0.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [80.91.229.3 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record * 0.0 WEIRD_PORT URI: Uses non-standard port number for HTTP * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B532E00A8C for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2015 11:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZkcR3-0007mE-OL for yocto@yoctoproject.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2015 20:30:29 +0200 Received: from ppp-2-86-169-83.home.otenet.gr ([2.86.169.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Oct 2015 20:30:29 +0200 Received: from gmane by ppp-2-86-169-83.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Oct 2015 20:30:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: yocto@yoctoproject.org From: Robert Berger Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 21:30:13 +0300 Message-ID: <561807B5.2010206@reliableembeddedsystems.com> References: <10D57FBA9FD7C14FB49EE17590E1AF94011F907751@svr-exc-03.intern.wipotec.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-2-86-169-83.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: <10D57FBA9FD7C14FB49EE17590E1AF94011F907751@svr-exc-03.intern.wipotec.de> Subject: Re: VFAT patent EP 0 618 540 X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 18:30:37 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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