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Re: Does NetBSD require a copyright assignment?



On Thu, 9 Oct 2025, Martin Husemann wrote:

On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 08:56:49AM -0400, Charles wrote:
Does NetBSD require a copyright assignment?

No, only a suitable license.

I am struggling to find code that was contributed directly to NetBSD
source tree where the author holds their copyright.

I guess the details are shady to mere mortal developers who have not
been at law school :-)

Everyone with a commit bit is member of TNF, so having TNF hold the copyright
is quite natural. And usualy developers just copy the boilerplate from
some existing file and just modify year(s) and name.

Note that there are instances where the author retains an individual
copyright.  There is a file in $SRC/distrib/notes/common/legal.common
which contains attributions.  I can't at the moment find this in an
installed system, only in the sources, and the file seems to be
generated by scanning the rest of the source tree using a perl script.


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