On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 18:55, Wierd Wierd wrote:
There is a problem with CD, and DVD as well. You may be able to implement ISO-9660 without a hitch, but microsoft's Joliet and Romeo (less known) file descriptors are the IP of Microsoft corp
True. For these cases, I think we have to implement the non-patented stuff and keep an eye on the marketplace for incompatbile CDs. I think we'll need to take the same approach wrt FAT, for what that's worth.
I thought UDF (dvd format) had LFN support built-in.
Does anyone know the patent status of ISO9660 and UDF? It sure would be a bummer to find out that they are patented too.
Also, whence cometh El Toritio?
IE-- if you use an internal Zip drive (property of Iomega corp for design), wouldnt Iomega have to take out a license from M$ to use the FAT file system? Is that license transferable?
IANAL, but I'd say that anytime you write code to do patented things, you have to have a license to do it. This includes your code reading a FAT filesystem (at least for the patented bits).
-Vizzini