The patch titled
Subject: nilfs2: clarify permission to replicate the design
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
nilfs2-clarify-permission-to-replicate-the-design.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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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
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