Kernel 2.6 options that should be used on Fedora Core 2

Martin Mewes mm at mewes.tv
Fri Dec 19 18:45:31 UTC 2003


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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