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. _ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
