On Monday 02 October 2006 09:34, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
As far as I can tell, Fedora is never going to include ntfs support --
the Fedora legal group seems to have re-examined the issue in 2005 and
decided again that it definitely wouldn't be included:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65749#c24
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLegalIssues (search for NTFS)
Aside from
linux-ntfs.org, another way to install NTFS drivers on
Fedora is to add the yum repository at
http://rpm.livna.org/ and do
"yum install kmod-ntfs". Also a great way to get other
"free-as-in-beer" things that Fedora won't ever include, like
nVidia/ATI graphics drivers and DVD-playing software. :)
We're planning on evaluating this again. We'll be looking at whether or not
the same patent protections that allowed the inclusion of Mono might also be
able to allow us to include NTFS support. This will be entirely up to RH
Legal and will be mostly behind closed doors, but at least it will be looked
into again.
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