Once upon a time, Martin Mewes mm@mewes.tv said: Content-Description: signed data
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2003 15:32 schrieb hutuworm:
But NTFS is patented by MS, maybe it's impossible to integrate
NTFS module into FC2.
That's not the point.
Yes it is. The fact that parts of NTFS are covered by patents means that you can't distribute it legally without a patent license.
Kernel-Support goes for incorporating a GPLed kind of NTFS-reading.
That can't be done without a patent license or a patent violation.
Are you really sure that Mandrake or SuSE gave money to M$ in order to put this into their distro?
No, they probably just ignored the legal problems, and Microsoft hasn't found it worth their while to go after them (which may have something to do with both having been headquartered outside the US; when Novell completes the buyout of SuSE, this may change).