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In-kernel driver or FUSE based?

In-kernel driver or FUSE based?

Posted Aug 26, 2009 17:31 UTC (Wed) by szaka (guest, #12740)
In reply to: In-kernel driver or FUSE based? by simlo
Parent article: Tuxera signs up with Microsoft

The open source drivers are FUSE based, the commercial NTFS and exFAT drivers are in-kernel.

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In-kernel driver or FUSE based?

Posted Aug 26, 2009 17:47 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Just to clarify, are the commercial drivers proprietary (commercial and proprietary is not synonymous) and includes a patent license as well? Do you believe it is legal to do that in a in-kernel drive while the kernel is under the GPL license?


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