7 Jan
2009
7 Jan
'09
8:40 p.m.
It might be possible to reuse parts of existing vfat driver routines
(which there is no doubt about correctness).
Anyone objects to such approach (a real *rewrite* of a driver, not
just porting WDK's fastfat sample)? If noone, I consider this a way
to go.
WBR,
Aleksey.
On Jan 7, 2009, at 11:13 PM, Alex Ionescu wrote:
You need to rewrite it to fulfill all the licensing
requirements.
Many things in FASTFAT aren't needed for us yet, so in theory
(IANAL), even stripping out those parts and keeping the rest of the
driver intact would be ok -- based on my knowledge that copyright
law states that you need to copy > 70% for it to be considered "the
same work", anything less than that and it's okay (again, IANAL).
So my opinion (IANAL!!!) is that if you use the WDK FASTFAT driver
as a reference source, and write (on your own, not copy pasting)
the same interfaces/function names/data types/structures (which
are, by definition, not copyrightable), and then write your own
code (use a different layout, optimize the functions, use other
variables/similar code logic, etc) and additionally, only
implement, for now, say half the driver, you'd be 100% legal, at
least in the US and other countries that signed the WIPO I think
it's called.
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu