Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of WikiStart

Timestamp:

2007-04-24T02:35:47Z (18 years ago)

Author:

warner

Comment:

add a brief intro, license info

WikiStart

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 = Welcome to Allmydata "Tahoe" =
+
+The [http://allmydata.com Allmydata] "Tahoe" project is a scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant filestore, distributed under a free-software license.
+
+The basic idea is that the data in this filesystem is spread over all
+participating nodes, using an algorithm that can recover the data even if a
+majority of the nodes are no longer available.
+
+
 
 == Tahoe resources ==
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  * TahoeIssues contains some discussion, open issues, and more docs
 
+== License ==
+
+Tahoe is offered under the GNU General Public License (v2).  It also comes
+with the added permission that, in the case that you are obligated to release
+a derived work under this licence (as per section 2.b of the GPLv2), you may
+delay the fulfillment of this obligation for up to 12 months.
+
+
 === Trac Starting Points ===