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From: z...@cca.UUCP (Steve Zimmerman)
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Subject: Public domain software
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I know that at least some of the routines in Section 3 of the Unix
Programmer's Manual for 4.1BSD are in the public domain.  My question
is, are all of them?  What about the stdio library?  What about routines
such as qsort?  References would be appreciated, if possible.  Thanks.

	Steve Zimmerman
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From: g...@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Public domain software
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Most of what is in Section 3 of the Unix User's Manual is NOT in the
public domain; both the Standard I/O Library and "qsort", for example, are
licensed code from Bell Laboratories.  Go forth and buy a V7 UNIX manual,
and almost everything mentioned there is licensed software in the form it
appears in 4.1BSD (there may be a few routines rewritten by Berkeley, but
very few).  4.2BSD may have more which were rewritten, but I suspect the vast
majority of the stuff mentioned in the V7 manual is basically Bell code.

	Guy Harris
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