Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netbsd.org> writes:
> True[1].  But my assumption is that given that the document is
> uncopyrighted in our source tree, it must be public domain (or similar)
> as otherwise we surely would have included the copyright, the author or
> the terms of the license.

Actually, that's not true. The public domain files in our tree are
explicitly marked as such.

See, for example, /usr/src/lib/libc/arch/i386/string/bcmp.S

> > If there is a file in the distribution that doesn't have a proper
> > copyright, you should get someone to find out where it came from and
> > have a proper copyright added.
> 
> this is probably TRTTD.  May not be possible, though.

cvs log and cvs annotate will likely settle the question for you
nearly instantly of who to contact.

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