From 756cbdb353c597dd265f070527b5ee9901f35261 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryusuke Konishi Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 16:23:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt index 41c3d332acc9..5b21ef76f751 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.