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# Welcome to Allmydata "Tahoe"
The [Allmydata](http://allmydata.com) "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
* The code is available via darcs by running the following command:
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* we need to set up an etch buildslave, as we don't currently have one running
* [TahoeIssues](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
* [OriginalWikiStart](OriginalWikiStart) -- the original Trac welcome page