30 Jul
2009
30 Jul
'09
6:51 a.m.
I didn't say you should copy/paste the driver.
But by all means, using it as a reference and writing an identically
functioning driver is 100% legal.
Hence I don't get the point of having "Experts" in FAT come and write
an independent driver, or use some other non-Windows driver as
reference/source.
In fact, legally, I move that if ReactOS were to strip out 70% of the
FastFAT code (totally likely, since the driver is legitimately bloated
for things ReactOS doesn't even need to worry about yet), you could
add the other 30% *as is*.
I believe this work was already started by one of Aleksey's russian
guys, but seems to have been dropped...
On 29-Jul-09, at 4:47 PM, Steven Edwards wrote:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Alex
Ionescu<ionucu(a)videotron.ca>
wrote:
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
I'm still at a loss as to why you are all
ignoring the free, open
source,
FastFAT driver in the Microsoft WDK.
Speaking just for myself, its not clear to me what in the aggregate of
the WDK is actually 'free' and which is just there for reference
purposes. I mean it could be perfectly fine and dandy for us to use
it, but without the ablity to do proper due diligence, it does not
seem to be worth it. Given the history of the fat patent mess, this
should seem perfectly clear.
Until Microsoft has the desire to clearly lay out for us what is safe
to use in an open source project and what is not, I don't see why its
worth the risk.
--
Steven Edwards
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
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