The patch titled
Subject: nilfs2: clarify permission to replicate the design
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
nilfs2-clarify-permission-to-replicate-the-design.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/nilfs2-clarify-permission-to-replicate-the-design.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/nilfs2-clarify-permission-to-replicate-the-design.patch
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From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff -puN Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt~nilfs2-clarify-permission-to-replicate-the-design Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt~nilfs2-clarify-permission-to-replicate-the-design
+++ a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
@@ -268,3 +268,8 @@ among NILFS2 files can be depicted as fo
( 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.
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
nilfs2-fix-white-space-issue-in-nilfs_mount.patch
nilfs2-remove-space-before-comma.patch
nilfs2-remove-fsf-mailing-address-from-gpl-notices.patch
nilfs2-clean-up-old-e-mail-addresses.patch
maintainers-add-web-link-for-nilfs-project.patch
nilfs2-clarify-permission-to-replicate-the-design.patch
nilfs2-get-rid-of-nilfs_mdt_mark_block_dirty.patch
nilfs2-move-cleanup-code-of-metadata-file-from-inode-routines.patch
nilfs2-replace-__attribute__packed-with-__packed.patch
nilfs2-add-missing-line-spacing.patch
nilfs2-clean-trailing-semicolons-in-macros.patch
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