From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: STAGING SUBSYSTEM <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
Benjamin Valentin <benpicco@zedat.fu-berlin.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add exFAT driver
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:43:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52434AED.3000104@ahsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130925202151.GA6149@kroah.com>
Am 25.09.2013 22:21, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:28:56PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
>> Maybe a silly question, but isn't exFAT protected by some MS owned
>> patents which might drive Linux users into the hand of MS lawyers as
>> already happened with FAT? It would make me wonder if not. Maybe you
>> could ask Samsung about that too, when you are there.
>
> Because Samsung released the code under the GPLv2, and their lawyers
> understand what that means, should answer any question you might have
> about this.
>
> thanks,
I'll have to thank for the clarification.
Alexander Holler
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-25 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-30 10:46 [PATCH] add exFAT driver Benjamin Valentin
2013-08-30 11:08 ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2013-08-30 15:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-25 16:36 ` Benjamin Valentin
2013-09-25 16:59 ` Anca Emanuel
2013-09-25 17:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-25 18:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-09-25 18:45 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-25 19:28 ` Alexander Holler
2013-09-25 20:21 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-25 20:43 ` Alexander Holler [this message]
2013-09-25 21:44 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2013-09-25 22:00 ` Alexander Holler
2013-09-25 22:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-25 22:29 ` Alexander Holler
2013-09-25 22:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-09-26 7:54 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2013-09-26 10:41 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-09-26 10:48 ` Alexander Holler
2013-09-26 11:06 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-09-26 7:50 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2013-09-25 21:57 ` Benjamin Valentin
2013-09-25 22:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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