[net.unix-wizards] public domain software

z@cca.UUCP (Steve Zimmerman) (07/23/83)

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
	{decvax,linus}!cca!z
	z@CCA-UNIX

guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) (07/24/83)

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
	{seismo,mcnc,we13,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!guy

>@brl-tgr.ARPA (12/11/85)

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	We at dundee university are about to be putting in a NCR tower 
running sytem V, however beingBrittish university we are rather short
of money, SO we would like to contact any one out there with PUBLIC DOMAIN
software available.  We are quite happy to do the port to NCR or possibley
across unix versions, below is a list of the sort of things we are looking for.
		
		Mail handler
		Graphics drivers
		Spreadsheet 
		Data base
		
		Pascal
		Fortran
		
		Basic

or anything else people are willing to give

	Thanks in advance
	Andrew Cobley.
A.COBLEY%DUNDEE@UCL-CS

Dundee university
Dept of electronics,
Dundee
Scotland

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