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Samsung Accidentally Leaked The exFAT Linux Driver
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I'd rather see exFAT burn in hell with its patents, it's sad that we see this attempt instead.
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Originally posted by c117152 View PostYou're implying they actually care. They don't. They still need to pay licensing to Microsoft so it changes nothing.
If anything, there's a chance someone will go over the code and write "supposedly white room" specs which one of the FOSS driver will then go on to use. I even suspect the specs could be released anonymously since the burden of proof doesn't lay on the accused*, but on the plaintiff*. In this case Microsoft will need to sue John Doe for the violation, at which point a FSF rep could testify the specs could have been made legitimately.
*Yeah, I know it's not criminal court. But it sounds better
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostProbably, but I know when I saw this code pop up originally i cloned the git directory. If you follow the GPL violations link, theres a link to an issue on the github page about the license situation. The developer makes a really valid point, due to the nature of git, it is seriously TRIVIAL to fork and clone this driver... The code's out there. The code will ALWAYS be out there now. This story alone probably got that guy 10+ more git clone's to his tree in 30seconds JUST to make sure that SOMEONE had a working copy of the code.
The cat's out of the bag, you can't put the genie back in the bottle... now all there is to see is what Samsung is gonna TRY to do.
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostProbably, but I know when I saw this code pop up originally i cloned the git directory. If you follow the GPL violations link, theres a link to an issue on the github page about the license situation. The developer makes a really valid point, due to the nature of git, it is seriously TRIVIAL to fork and clone this driver... The code's out there. The code will ALWAYS be out there now. This story alone probably got that guy 10+ more git clone's to his tree in 30seconds JUST to make sure that SOMEONE had a working copy of the code.
The cat's out of the bag, you can't put the genie back in the bottle... now all there is to see is what Samsung is gonna TRY to do.
If anything, there's a chance someone will go over the code and write "supposedly white room" specs which one of the FOSS driver will then go on to use. I even suspect the specs could be released anonymously since the burden of proof doesn't lay on the accused*, but on the plaintiff*. In this case Microsoft will need to sue John Doe for the violation, at which point a FSF rep could testify the specs could have been made legitimately.
*Yeah, I know it's not criminal court. But it sounds better
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"However a certain user "rxrz" went a bit too far with his actions"
Certain "Andrei F." went a bit too far with his actions for sure. Linux has inofficial exFAT driver, oh no!, it is SO bad, lets blabber loud how bad it is, lets take down git repo so Linux user can access exFAT - I mean its written for Linux kernel (Android) and hereby illegal!
Certain "Andrei F." is Pavlik Morozov and deserves the same fate.
What an ass.
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Originally posted by r1348 View PostThis is a blatant licence violation and Samsung has the right to go medieval on his ass. Will they? Probably not, but I'd expect a cease&desist pretty soon.
The cat's out of the bag, you can't put the genie back in the bottle... now all there is to see is what Samsung is gonna TRY to do.
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This is a blatant licence violation and Samsung has the right to go medieval on his ass. Will they? Probably not, but I'd expect a cease&desist pretty soon.
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Samsung Accidentally Leaked The exFAT Linux Driver
Phoronix: Samsung Accidentally Leaked The exFAT Linux Driver
Last month there was news of a native Linux driver for Microsoft's exFAT file-system. It turns out that the driver wasn't developed through any clean-room reverse-engineering but was rather the apparent rebadging of a Samsung exFAT driver for Linux...
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