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I think the GPL license kind of implies that you do have a license to use it.


How does a copyright license imply a license of a third party's patent?

Open source mpeg codecs don't come with a patent license from mpeg and friends. Neither does a open source file system driver come with a patent license from microsoft and friends.


That's GPLv3, GPLv2 (which the exFAT code was licensed under) doesn't include patent rights.




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