[PATCH 06/11] nilfs2: clarify permission to replicate the design

From	Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH 06/11] nilfs2: clarify permission to replicate the design
Date	2016-04-29 15:40 +0200
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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.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
index 41c3d33..5b21ef7 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
@@ -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.
-- 
1.8.3.1

Thread

[PATCH 00/11] nilfs2 updates Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> - 2016-04-29 15:40 +0200
  [PATCH 09/11] nilfs2: replace __attribute__((packed)) with __packed Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> - 2016-04-29 15:40 +0200
  [PATCH 07/11] nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_mdt_mark_block_dirty() Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> - 2016-04-29 15:40 +0200
  [PATCH 06/11] nilfs2: clarify permission to replicate the design Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> - 2016-04-29 15:40 +0200
  [PATCH 08/11] nilfs2: move cleanup code of metadata file from inode routines Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> - 2016-04-29 15:40 +0200
  [PATCH 02/11] nilfs2: remove space before comma Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> - 2016-04-29 15:40 +0200

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