FAT patent uphelp, now what?

n0dalus n0dalus+redhat at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 15:19:18 UTC 2006


On 1/12/06, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If FAT patent is upheld, then I guess FAT support has to be removed.
>

I think the patents in question are only to do with simultaneously
supporting 8.3 filenames and long filenames. If that's correct then we
would only have to remove that particular part of the code (if that
functionality even exists on Linux vfat) since it's not really needed
anyway.

n0dalus.




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