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# Userland

This project is a port of NetBSD userland (`bin`, `sbin`, `usr.bin`, and `usr.sbin` in the NetBSD `src` distribution) to the musl implementation of the C standard library. It aims to provide a complete POSIX userland, with support for user-friendly extensions.

# Rationale

There are a multitude of other projects which aim to provide a Linux userland. None of them are POSIX-compliant, and many have no interest in becoming 100% POSIX-compliant. Some of those projects additionally do not wish to support extensions provided by other projects.

# License

All code in this repository is licensed under `BSD-3-Clause`; see `LICENSE` for a copy of the license text.

# Contributing

Contributions may be made in several ways:

* Write code.
* Write manual pages.
* Write ancillary documentation.
* File tickets in the issue tracker for features which are missing but implemented by another project.
* Participate constructively in project discussions.