Hi

About  discussions about MS license. the question is if the license agreement to restrict only to Microsoft Windows is valid in EU.

I do not think so. But only a lawyers can tell about that. Rest of the world I do not known.

In sweden lest we got so call negative license agreement. That mean part of a license   agreement is not valid for it is bad for user or goes against any law. 

2013/12/2 Steven Edwards <winehacker@gmail.com>

Look at how the Core Fonts for the Web are handled. We should have generic drivers that are 'good enough' to be able get online and download the Microsoft ones if the user wants to take the risk of violating Microsofts license.

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Alex Ionescu <ionucu@videotron.ca> wrote:

These are all legitimate concerns for a FAT driver, but keep in mind the WDK library also has things like large chunks of the storage stack, the input stack, the floppy stack, audio and network stuff, etc...

We could decide to keep our current FAT driver (or find a workaround), but still implement this idea for the other drivers.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Michael Fritscher <michael@fritscher.net> wrote:

Hi,

normally, I wouldn't have any problem with having drivers on a second disc
/ image. But FAT (and in particular cdfs) are core-drivers in my opinion,
which are needed almost every time - also for booting from CD for
installation. FAT is widely used still today, e.g. on usb-sticks.

What are currently the biggest problems in these drivers? If remember
correctly, our cache manager isn't compatible to the one in Windows, and
these drivers have workarounds, is it?

Perhaps the drivers could be written by a GSoC project or something like
that?

Additionally, what about NTFS? Is there a ntfs-driver in the MSDN-library
as is the FAT-driver? If not, almost nothing is won if we use the
fat-driver from MS: The OS- dependent part of the ntfs-driver need to be
written from scratch from us anyway, which could then be reused by our
FAT-driver. And hey, the filesystem part of the FAT-driver shouldn't be
too complicated if we managed to write a NTFS-driver^^

Best regards,
Michael Fritscher

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