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