In-kernel driver or FUSE based?

Posted Aug 26, 2009 17:47 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: In-kernel driver or FUSE based? by szaka
Parent article: Tuxera signs up with Microsoft

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?