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Date:      Sat, 28 Dec 2019 01:01:52 -0600
From:      Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-ports@tharned.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   exFAT is no longer encumbered
Message-ID:  <1921981.4WAli8B44Z@no.place.like.home>

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As of last August, Microsoft have relaxed the patent restrictions on exFAT[1].

Can the Makefile LICENSE_PERMS_MSPAT restrictions be removed from sysutils/fusefs-exfat? Might exFAT make it into the FreeBSD base system (like msdosfs) one day?


[1] <https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat-linux-kernel/>;

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Greg Rivers





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