[ros-dev] FullFAT replacement for Fastfat.sys

[Alex Ionescu]

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 at videotron.ca>  
> wrote:
>> 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
>
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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu