exFAT is no longer encumbered

[Greg Rivers]

> Expanding on what Kevin said,
> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/mtl/exfat-licensing.aspx
> suggests that (a) exFAT is still patented and restricted as before,
> and (b) GPLv2 licensing was granted only for the Linux kernel module
> that they submitted.
> 
> The BSD License grants the ability to use BSD-licensed code in
> commercial products, so I'm not sure that Microsoft would want to
> relax their licensing for us. As Kevin said, IANAL.
> 
Yeah, IANAL either. My quick read of the blog post may have been overly optimistic. Perhaps the Foundation could help?

I brought this topic up because I think a lot of people could benefit the cross-platform compatibility that this would provide.

-- 
Greg