Commit 756cbdb3 authored by Ryusuke Konishi's avatar Ryusuke Konishi Committed by Linus Torvalds

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.jpSigned-off-by: default avatarRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 9e92e516
......@@ -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.
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