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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