Commit 756cbdb3 authored May 23, 2016 by Ryusuke Konishi Committed by Linus Torvalds May 23, 2016

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>

parent 9e92e516

Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt

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		@@ -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.