From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
Cc: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
info@fsf.org, office@fsfeurope.org, info@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:53:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903311653.14500.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1238512897.27596.579.camel@skunk>
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 16:21:37 Xavier Bestel wrote:
> I'm speaking out of my ass here, but seeing how Microsoft managed to
> sneak some patents into something as trivial as FAT, I'm pretty sure MTP
> is a hell of a minefield.
That did occur to me too but I was somewhat hopeful that perhaps this would be
mitigated by the (eventual?) adoption as a usb.org standard.
The spec and an adopters' legal agreement around it is here:
http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/MTP_1.0.zip
I scanned the agreement and it didn't look like it was obviously evil but I'm
not really qualified to make that judgement ;-) It had some promising words in
it like "zero royalty" but I would be much happier if someone with legal
knowhow (and preferably experience of the usb.org standards procedures)
decoded it for me / us!
Assuming the spec is legally "safe" to implement, I would have thought it
would be generally beneficial for device manufacturers to support both
"initiator" and "responder" endpoints under Linux.
Cheers,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-31 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-31 8:15 Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media Martin Steigerwald
2009-03-31 12:57 ` Mark Williamson
2009-03-31 13:47 ` Xavier Bestel
2009-03-31 15:02 ` Mark Williamson
2009-03-31 15:21 ` Xavier Bestel
2009-03-31 15:53 ` Mark Williamson [this message]
2009-04-02 17:51 ` Bryan Henderson
2009-04-03 8:28 ` Martin Steigerwald
2009-04-05 6:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-05 13:30 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
2009-04-05 20:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-06 19:46 ` Nicholas Miell
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