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JulmaHerra is offline JulmaHerra
2016-01-18 , 12:52
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#3823
Originally Posted by ZogG View Post
Not sure about the fees, but there is GPL opensource implementation of exFAT.
It doesn't matter if there is an GPL implementation of it. To distribute exFAT implementation commercially you will need to pay the licensing. Alternatively one can fight in in court, but it would be rather futile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#...ftware_patents

From the "hearing community" i think it was all the way around, they did not want to implement it and told it was coz community asked not to (otherwise why exactly this is what they actually listened to?) - but we'll never know
I am not surprised that you will choose such interpretation about events. Still, I remember the fighting about the licensing both here and at TJC (I was in favor of properly licensing it for the sake of compatibility), also all the polls showed that majority of voters were against the idea of properly licensing exFAT, so in that regard it takes a bit more than you just saying that "oh they just wanted to annoy everybody and not implement it." In other words, you don't really have anything to back up your claim this time.