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+[LICENSING] 
+
+ReiserFS is hereby licensed under the GNU General
+Public License version 2.
+
+Source code files that contain the phrase "licensing governed by
+reiserfs/README" are "governed files" throughout this file.  Governed
+files are licensed under the GPL.  The portions of them owned by Hans
+Reiser, or authorized to be licensed by him, have been in the past,
+and likely will be in the future, licensed to other parties under
+other licenses.  If you add your code to governed files, and don't
+want it to be owned by Hans Reiser, put your copyright label on that
+code so the poor blight and his customers can keep things straight.
+All portions of governed files not labeled otherwise are owned by Hans
+Reiser, and by adding your code to it, widely distributing it to
+others or sending us a patch, and leaving the sentence in stating that
+licensing is governed by the statement in this file, you accept this.
+It will be a kindness if you identify whether Hans Reiser is allowed
+to license code labeled as owned by you on your behalf other than
+under the GPL, because he wants to know if it is okay to do so and put
+a check in the mail to you (for non-trivial improvements) when he
+makes his next sale.  He makes no guarantees as to the amount if any,
+though he feels motivated to motivate contributors, and you can surely
+discuss this with him before or after contributing.  You have the
+right to decline to allow him to license your code contribution other
+than under the GPL.
+
+Further licensing options are available for commercial and/or other
+interests directly from Hans Reiser: hans@reiser.to.  If you interpret
+the GPL as not allowing those additional licensing options, you read
+it wrongly, and Richard Stallman agrees with me, when carefully read
+you can see that those restrictions on additional terms do not apply
+to the owner of the copyright, and my interpretation of this shall
+govern for this license.  
+
+Finally, nothing in this license shall be interpreted to allow you to
+fail to fairly credit me, or to remove my credits, without my
+permission, unless you are an end user not redistributing to others.
+If you have doubts about how to properly do that, or about what is
+fair, ask.  (Last I spoke with him Richard was contemplating how best
+to address the fair crediting issue in the next GPL version.)
+
+[END LICENSING]
+
+Reiserfs is a file system based on balanced tree algorithms, which is
+described at http://devlinux.com/namesys.
+
+Stop reading here.  Go there, then return.
+
+Send bug reports to yura@namesys.botik.ru.
+
+mkreiserfs and other utilities are in reiserfs/utils, or wherever your
+Linux provider put them.  There is some disagreement about how useful
+it is for users to get their fsck and mkreiserfs out of sync with the
+version of reiserfs that is in their kernel, with many important
+distributors wanting them out of sync.:-) Please try to remember to
+recompile and reinstall fsck and mkreiserfs with every update of
+reiserfs, this is a common source of confusion.  Note that some of the
+utilities cannot be compiled without accessing the balancing code
+which is in the kernel code, and relocating the utilities may require
+you to specify where that code can be found.
+
+Yes, if you update your reiserfs kernel module you do have to
+recompile your kernel, most of the time.  The errors you get will be
+quite cryptic if your forget to do so.
+
+Real users, as opposed to folks who want to hack and then understand
+what went wrong, will want REISERFS_CHECK off.
+
+Hideous Commercial Pitch: Spread your development costs across other OS
+vendors.  Select from the best in the world, not the best in your
+building, by buying from third party OS component suppliers.  Leverage
+the software component development power of the internet.  Be the most
+aggressive in taking advantage of the commercial possibilities of
+decentralized internet development, and add value through your branded
+integration that you sell as an operating system.  Let your competitors
+be the ones to compete against the entire internet by themselves.  Be
+hip, get with the new economic trend, before your competitors do.  Send
+email to hans@reiser.to.
+
+To understand the code, after reading the website, start reading the
+code by reading reiserfs_fs.h first.
+
+Hans Reiser was the project initiator, primary architect, source of all
+funding for the first 5.5 years, and one of the programmers.  He owns
+the copyright.
+
+Vladimir Saveljev was one of the programmers, and he worked long hours
+writing the cleanest code.  He always made the effort to be the best he
+could be, and to make his code the best that it could be.  What resulted
+was quite remarkable. I don't think that money can ever motivate someone
+to work the way he did, he is one of the most selfless men I know.
+
+Yura helps with benchmarking, coding hashes, and block pre-allocation
+code.
+
+Anatoly Pinchuk is a former member of our team who worked closely with
+Vladimir throughout the project's development.  He wrote a quite
+substantial portion of the total code.  He realized that there was a
+space problem with packing tails of files for files larger than a node
+that start on a node aligned boundary (there are reasons to want to node
+align files), and he invented and implemented indirect items and
+unformatted nodes as the solution.
+
+Konstantin Shvachko, with the help of the Russian version of a VC,
+tried to put me in a position where I was forced into giving control
+of the project to him.  (Fortunately, as the person paying the money
+for all salaries from my dayjob I owned all copyrights, and you can't
+really force takeovers of sole proprietorships.)  This was something
+curious, because he never really understood the value of our project,
+why we should do what we do, or why innovation was possible in
+general, but he was sure that he ought to be controlling it.  Every
+innovation had to be forced past him while he was with us.  He added
+two years to the time required to complete reiserfs, and was a net
+loss for me.  Mikhail Gilula was a brilliant innovator who also left
+in a destructive way that erased the value of his contributions, and
+that he was shown much generosity just makes it more painful.
+
+Grigory Zaigralin was an extremely effective system administrator for
+our group.
+
+Igor Krasheninnikov was wonderful at hardware procurement, repair, and
+network installation.
+
+Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote the teahash.c code, and he gives credit to a
+textbook he got the algorithm from in the code.  Note that his analysis
+of how we could use the hashing code in making 32 bit NFS cookies work
+was probably more important than the actual algorithm.  Colin Plumb also
+contributed to it.
+
+Chris Mason dived right into our code, and in just a few months produced
+the journaling code that dramatically increased the value of ReiserFS.
+He is just an amazing programmer.
+
+Igor Zagorovsky is writing much of the new item handler and extent code
+for our next major release.
+
+Alexander Zarochentcev (sometimes known as zam, or sasha), wrote the
+resizer, and is hard at work on implementing allocate on flush.  SGI
+implemented allocate on flush before us for XFS, and generously took
+the time to convince me we should do it also.  They are great people,
+and a great company.
+
+Yuri Shevchuk and Nikita Danilov are doing squid cache optimization.
+
+Vitaly Fertman is doing fsck.
+
+Jeff Mahoney, of SuSE, contributed a few cleanup fixes, most notably
+the endian safe patches which allow ReiserFS to run on any platform
+supported by the Linux kernel.
+
+SuSE, IntegratedLinux.com, Ecila, MP3.com, bigstorage.com, and the
+Alpha PC Company made it possible for me to not have a day job
+anymore, and to dramatically increase our staffing.  Ecila funded
+hypertext feature development, MP3.com funded journaling, SuSE funded
+core development, IntegratedLinux.com funded squid web cache
+appliances, bigstorage.com funded HSM, and the alpha PC company funded
+the alpha port.  Many of these tasks were helped by sponsors other
+than the ones just named.  SuSE has helped in much more than just
+funding....
+