On Wed, 7 Feb 1996 17:52:58 -0600 
 Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com> wrote:

 > I heard a rumor, ages ago, that the regents released the 4.4 code into
 > the public domain.  Is this true?

Well, I didn't think it was public domain.  Most of the BSD code I've 
seen is definitely copyrighted, though freely redistributable.  :-)

 > In either case, what's the copyright status of the NetBSD source?  I'm
 > considering putting together a reliable standard C library, and would
 > like to do as little work as possible.  (Applications would include
 > making ScumOS usable.)  I'd like to be able to release it as
 > copyleft code, free for commercial or personal use.  Obviously, if
 > I can get the Berkeley implementations for the majority of the code,
 > I'll win big.

The copyright status is what you see at the top of each file.  Given 
that, I don't see any reason why you can't make a nice C library for 
SunOS out of NetBSD's.

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