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.ryus...@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
