Re: Does NetBSD require a copyright assignment?

Most of those files are actually from another OS that were later included in NetBSD.

I likely should've been more clear, I am referring to NetBSD specific code.

On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 10:39:50 +0200
Julian Coleman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > Hi, if you look at the NetBSD source code much of it contains "Copyright (c) The NetBSD Foundation".
> > 
> > Does NetBSD require a copyright assignment?
> 
> That is a good question.  Files should have both a licence and a copyright,
> but there are a few that don't.  However, I'm not sure if a new contribution
> without a copyright or licence would be accepted.
> 
> > I am struggling to find code that was contributed directly to NetBSD source tree where the author holds their copyright.
> 
> I quickly ran:
> 
>   grep -r Copyright src 2>/dev/null | grep -v NetBSD | more
> 
> and (ignoring lines where copyright is split across multiple lines) I see:
> 
>   src/bin/ksh/alloc.c: * Copyright (c) 2002 Marc Espie.
>   src/bin/pax/sel_subs.c: * Copyright (c) 1992 Keith Muller.
>   src/bin/rcmd/rcmd.1:.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Matthew R. Green.
> 
> and more.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Julian
>