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   Frank Slootweg, 2025-12-18 21:46:   
      
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   >   Wikipedia [1] says, "exFAT was proprietary until 28 August 2019, when   
   > Microsoft published its specification.".   
      
   Just because the specification is published does not mean you don't have   
   to get a license to use it.   
      
   Quote:   
      
   "exFAT was proprietary until 28 August 2019, when Microsoft published   
   its specification. Microsoft owns patents on several elements of its   
   design."   
      
   And as far I know Microsoft did not give up the patents.   
      
   >   If exFAT was proprietary/licensed/paid/, it couldn't be   
   > supported on Linux and FreeBSD.   
      
   Linux implemented many things by reverse engineering like NTFS even   
   without a specific license for it.   
      
   >   So while there is indeed no longer support on Android >13 [1], the   
   > reason given "Google doesn't want to pay them for support" is false.   
   >   
   > [1]    
      
   If adding ExFAT does not need any license there would not be any reason   
   not to do so.   
      
      
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