Messages in this thread |  | | From | Mark Williamson <> | Subject | Re: Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media | Date | Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:53:12 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 31 March 2009 16:21:37 Xavier Bestel wrote: > I'm speaking out of my ass here, but seeing how Microsoft managed to > sneak some patents into something as trivial as FAT, I'm pretty sure MTP > is a hell of a minefield.
That did occur to me too but I was somewhat hopeful that perhaps this would be mitigated by the (eventual?) adoption as a usb.org standard.
The spec and an adopters' legal agreement around it is here: http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/MTP_1.0.zip
I scanned the agreement and it didn't look like it was obviously evil but I'm not really qualified to make that judgement ;-) It had some promising words in it like "zero royalty" but I would be much happier if someone with legal knowhow (and preferably experience of the usb.org standards procedures) decoded it for me / us!
Assuming the spec is legally "safe" to implement, I would have thought it would be generally beneficial for device manufacturers to support both "initiator" and "responder" endpoints under Linux.
Cheers, Mark
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