Hi Chris,
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2003 17:54 schrieb Chris Adams:
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.
If it really would be like this, the complete Samba-Team must have
been jailed because they just listened to network traffic between
MS-Servers and -Clients in order to built their product.
> Kernel-Support goes for incorporating a GPLed kind of
> NTFS-reading.
That can't be done without a patent license or a patent violation.
Yes, it can. You have to analyse what NTFS does and built a r/o-thing
with your own ideas. This does not mean that you incorporate another
FileSystem named ntfs4linux (ie) to Linux.
Freundliche Grüsse
Kind regards
Martin Mewes
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