Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [ekohl] 61145: [FASTFAT] FsdGetFsVolumeInformation: Return volume creation time.

[Magnus Olsen]

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(a)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(a)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(a)fritscher.net>wrote;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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