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@@ -34,6 +34,23 @@ Although the existing squashfs-tools and the Linux kernel implementation have been used for testing, the source code in this package is neither based on, nor derived from either of them. +## Documentation and the Build System + +The auto-tools based build system has in large parts been hacked together by +copy & pasting from various tutorials and other projects (mostly util-linux, +and mtd-utils), overhauled many times since 2015. + +The m4 macros in the `m4` directory were copied verbatim and have explicit +licenses. Please respect those. As for everything else, feel free to copy and +paste it as you wish. + +The `doc` directory contains measurement data, pseudo lab reports and an RFC +style write-up of the SquashFS format. You may do with those as you please. + +If you use those as a basis for writing about SquashFS or this package, please +cite your sources and mark verbatim quotations as such. I won't be angry if you +don't, but a thesis supervisor, reviewer or fellow Wikipedian might be. + # Binary Packages with 3rd Party Libraries If this file is included in a binary release package, additional 3rd party |