Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option

Chris Friesen
2009-05-04T20:53:57Z

Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Because of that let us assume that IBM Corporate, Paul E. McKenney, Andrew
> Tridgell and other know what code exactly infridges that patent. IBM
> has worked around that code in the various embedded Linux offerings they
> ship and probably urge distributors to disable it. Why would we not
> remove that code unconditionally in that case and let other people
> infridge it?
>
> Or that patent is believed to be invalid and faught, and there was
> absolute no reason to remove it except for companies doing as part of a
> settlement and they could do it in their privat trees.

What about the scenario where a patent is valid in certain parts of the
world but not in others? It seems possible that in this scenario there
may be valid reasons to have a config option.

Chris