1 [LICENSING]
2
3 ReiserFS is hereby licensed under the GNU Gene
4 Public License version 2.
5
6 Source code files that contain the phrase "lic
7 reiserfs/README" are "governed files" througho
8 files are licensed under the GPL. The portion
9 Reiser, or authorized to be licensed by him, h
10 and likely will be in the future, licensed to
11 other licenses. If you add your code to gover
12 want it to be owned by Hans Reiser, put your c
13 code so the poor blight and his customers can
14 All portions of governed files not labeled oth
15 Reiser, and by adding your code to it, widely
16 others or sending us a patch, and leaving the
17 licensing is governed by the statement in this
18 It will be a kindness if you identify whether
19 to license code labeled as owned by you on you
20 under the GPL, because he wants to know if it
21 a check in the mail to you (for non-trivial im
22 makes his next sale. He makes no guarantees a
23 though he feels motivated to motivate contribu
24 discuss this with him before or after contribu
25 right to decline to allow him to license your
26 than under the GPL.
27
28 Further licensing options are available for co
29 interests directly from Hans Reiser: hans@reis
30 the GPL as not allowing those additional licen
31 it wrongly, and Richard Stallman agrees with m
32 you can see that those restrictions on additio
33 to the owner of the copyright, and my interpre
34 govern for this license.
35
36 Finally, nothing in this license shall be inte
37 fail to fairly credit me, or to remove my cred
38 permission, unless you are an end user not red
39 If you have doubts about how to properly do th
40 fair, ask. (Last I spoke with him Richard was
41 to address the fair crediting issue in the nex
42
43 [END LICENSING]
44
45 Reiserfs is a file system based on balanced tr
46 described at https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/i
47
48 Stop reading here. Go there, then return.
49
50 Send bug reports to yura@namesys.botik.ru.
51
52 mkreiserfs and other utilities are in reiserfs
53 Linux provider put them. There is some disagr
54 it is for users to get their fsck and mkreiser
55 version of reiserfs that is in their kernel, w
56 distributors wanting them out of sync.:-) Plea
57 recompile and reinstall fsck and mkreiserfs wi
58 reiserfs, this is a common source of confusion
59 utilities cannot be compiled without accessing
60 which is in the kernel code, and relocating th
61 you to specify where that code can be found.
62
63 Yes, if you update your reiserfs kernel module
64 recompile your kernel, most of the time. The
65 quite cryptic if your forget to do so.
66
67 Real users, as opposed to folks who want to ha
68 what went wrong, will want REISERFS_CHECK off.
69
70 Hideous Commercial Pitch: Spread your developm
71 vendors. Select from the best in the world, n
72 building, by buying from third party OS compon
73 the software component development power of th
74 aggressive in taking advantage of the commerci
75 decentralized internet development, and add va
76 integration that you sell as an operating syst
77 be the ones to compete against the entire inte
78 hip, get with the new economic trend, before y
79 email to hans@reiser.to.
80
81 To understand the code, after reading the webs
82 code by reading reiserfs_fs.h first.
83
84 Hans Reiser was the project initiator, primary
85 funding for the first 5.5 years, and one of th
86 the copyright.
87
88 Vladimir Saveljev was one of the programmers,
89 writing the cleanest code. He always made the
90 could be, and to make his code the best that i
91 was quite remarkable. I don't think that money
92 to work the way he did, he is one of the most
93
94 Yura helps with benchmarking, coding hashes, a
95 code.
96
97 Anatoly Pinchuk is a former member of our team
98 Vladimir throughout the project's development.
99 substantial portion of the total code. He rea
100 space problem with packing tails of files for
101 that start on a node aligned boundary (there a
102 align files), and he invented and implemented
103 unformatted nodes as the solution.
104
105 Konstantin Shvachko was taking part in the ear
106
107 Mikhail Gilula was a brilliant innovator that
108
109 Grigory Zaigralin was an extremely effective s
110 our group.
111
112 Igor Krasheninnikov was wonderful at hardware
113 network installation.
114
115 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote the teahash.c code,
116 textbook he got the algorithm from in the code
117 of how we could use the hashing code in making
118 was probably more important than the actual al
119 contributed to it.
120
121 Chris Mason dived right into our code, and in
122 the journaling code that dramatically increase
123 He is just an amazing programmer.
124
125 Igor Zagorovsky is writing much of the new ite
126 for our next major release.
127
128 Alexander Zarochentcev (sometimes known as zam
129 resizer, and is hard at work on implementing a
130 implemented allocate on flush before us for XF
131 the time to convince me we should do it also.
132 and a great company.
133
134 Yuri Shevchuk and Nikita Danilov are doing squ
135
136 Vitaly Fertman is doing fsck.
137
138 Jeff Mahoney, of SuSE, contributed a few clean
139 the endian safe patches which allow ReiserFS t
140 supported by the Linux kernel.
141
142 SuSE, IntegratedLinux.com, Ecila, MP3.com, big
143 Alpha PC Company made it possible for me to no
144 anymore, and to dramatically increase our staf
145 hypertext feature development, MP3.com funded
146 core development, IntegratedLinux.com funded s
147 appliances, bigstorage.com funded HSM, and the
148 the alpha port. Many of these tasks were help
149 than the ones just named. SuSE has helped in
150 funding....
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