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| author | Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> | 2016-05-23 16:23:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -0700 |
| commit | 756cbdb353c597dd265f070527b5ee9901f35261 (patch) | |
| tree | 21f206f189eed13010375426085042bb2b6eabe4 /Documentation | |
| parent | 9e92e516ed4321b7c96206d92a21d6a36249f680 (diff) | |
nilfs2: clarify permission to replicate the design
To respond to a certain developer's request, this explicitly state that
developers can reimplement the nilfs2 design for other operating systems
to share data stored in that format.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461935747-10380-7-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt index 41c3d332acc9..5b21ef76f751 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt @@ -268,3 +268,8 @@ among NILFS2 files can be depicted as follows: ( regular file, directory, or symlink ) For detail on the format of each file, please see include/linux/nilfs2_fs.h. + +There are no patents or other intellectual property that we protect +with regard to the design of NILFS2. It is allowed to replicate the +design in hopes that other operating systems could share (mount, read, +write, etc.) data stored in this format. |