Public Domain C library?

[Solar]

In my dislike of the GPL, are there any C libraries around that fall under public domain?

[jamesb]

How about the BSD C libraries, in particular the FreeBSD C library? Not exactly "public domain" but very close: the BSD licences are very liberal and permissive.

[Solar]

I had hoped for a bit "cleaner" C lib (i.e., less POSIX stuff scattered in there). But indeed, I had forgotten about the BSD license. Thanks for the hint!

[Solar]

I just had a look at NetBSD kernel source, and... ...it's the first time I ever encountered K&R style C in the wild... oh my...

[DevL]

The same goes for the OpenBSD and FreeBSD c lib. Scary stuff.

[bob]

What's wrong with GPL?
::)

[Chris Giese]

Paul Edwards has a public domain libc:
http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.edwards3/program.htm

Much of the code on my own web pages is public domain.
An incomplete libc is part of this archive file:
http://my.execpc.com/~geezer/temp/os.zip

Parts of the MinGW runtime are public domain:
http://www.mingw.org/licensing.shtml
Exactly which parts is not clear to me. Mixed licenses suck.

Links to other C libraries:
http://my.execpc.com/~geezer/osd/libc/index.htm#links

[Solar]

@ bob:

Let's not go there. That's premium flamebait.

@ Chris:

Thanks!