Legal questions: Copyright notices

[Julian Djamil Fagir]

Hi,

when looking at the {NetBSD,internals,pkgsrc} guide, you always see the
acknowledgements and copyright notices separately, and blabla, NetBSD is a
registered trademark.
I wonder: How should such things be handled in the wiki? Is there need for a
copyright by TNF? Is there need for a trademark note? Do we have to tell
everyone that registered trademarks of their respective owners, etc.?
How should achknowledgements be handled? Put them in the commit messages, or
continue having them separately?
Do we have the possibility to add comments in ikiwiki, to put licences in? Or
should we make them public?
What is the default licence?

Regards, Julian

[Jeremy C. Reed]

The wiki content is under the standard TNF license as it is contributed
to TNF, unless specifically noted otherwise (and must be compatible with
our licensing if otherwise).

http://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html#default

Please feel free to add a wikipage that mentions the default copyright
and license (and link to it). Feel free to mention the NetBSD and pkgsrc
trademarks there also (and links for further details too).

We don't need to acknowledge any others' trademarks (assuming we use the
trademarks correctly).

Different licenses of content in the wiki can be added to the content
page itself or create a new wikipage for it and wikilink to it.


Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.NetBSD.org/

[Julian Djamil Fagir]

Hi,

Post by Jeremy C. Reed
The wiki content is under the standard TNF license as it is contributed
to TNF, unless specifically noted otherwise (and must be compatible with
our licensing if otherwise).
http://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html#default
Please feel free to add a wikipage that mentions the default copyright
and license (and link to it). Feel free to mention the NetBSD and pkgsrc
trademarks there also (and links for further details too).
We don't need to acknowledge any others' trademarks (assuming we use the
trademarks correctly).
Different licenses of content in the wiki can be added to the content
page itself or create a new wikipage for it and wikilink to it.

thank you for clarifying that!
Now we can "warn" everybody proposing changes to wiki content about that
licencing. If this about page already tells that, we won't have to further
explain it in the wiki, I think.

Regards, Julian