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Re:exFAT in the Linux kernel by progval on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @05:12PM (#20824020)
According to http://en.swpat.org/wiki/GPLv2_and_patents , GPLv2 includes an implicit patent grant

So my guess would be that the definition of "derivative work" would apply.

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Re:exFAT in the Linux kernel by monocasa on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @05:37PM (#20824243)
That's super duper grey area, which is why GPLv3 went out of it's way to have an explicit patent grant.
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Re:exFAT in the Linux kernel by bubblethink on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @05:15PM (#20824041)
So the code in the linux kernel would have to be signed off/committed by MS in that case, right ? For a grant to have any meaning, the code would need to come from them ?
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