| Jens Axboe | 477eb7e | 2012-10-23 20:58:35 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | As specified by the COPYING file, fio is free software published under version |
| 2 | 2 of the GPL license. That covers the copying part of the license. By using fio, |
| 3 | you are also promising to uphold the following moral obligations: |
| 4 | |
| 5 | - If you publish results that are done using fio, it must be clearly stated |
| 6 | that fio was used. The specific version should also be listed. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | - If you develop features or bug fixes for fio, they should be sent upstream |
| 9 | for inclusion into the main repository. This isn't specific to fio, that |
| 10 | is a general rule for any open source project. It's just the Right Thing |
| 11 | to do. Plus it means that you don't have to maintain the feature or change |
| 12 | internally. In the long run, this is saving you a lot of time. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | I would consider the above to fall under "common courtesy", but since |
| 15 | people tend to have differing opinions of that, it doesn't hurt to spell out |
| 16 | my expectations clearly. |
| 17 | |