Hi, (if unsure please CC me on replies, I'm not subscribed to -legal) due to demand by a coworker I've taken #625611 and started to prepare a package for the exFAT fuse driver and the utils package. Currently I hesitate to upload it and place the package on Debian infrastructure (as in moving it to collab-maint) due to the very unclear patent situation. Microsoft seems to actively sell lincenses to commercial enties using exFAT in their products, so from my point of view it currently looks a bit problematic to ship exFAT in Debian. On the other hand we ship a FAT driver in the Kernel and Microsoft is actively collecting royalties from TomTom and others aswell. If someone has some more insides of this matter it would be nice to hear about them before I pester our ftp-master with a final decision. Beside that we seem to have no consistent naming scheme for all those fuse mount helpers which we might want to takle one day. Cheers, Sven
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