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Maybe this library can be updated and more compatibility functions be added
along the time, but there's no guarantee of that for now.

``sys/tree.h`` was copied verbatim from the NetBSD source-tree by the Void Linux
project, so it's covered by the BSD 2-Clause licence too.
``sys/tree.h`` was copied verbatim from the [NetBSD](https://netbsd.org)
source-tree by the [Void Linux project](https://voidlinux.org), so it's covered
by the BSD 2-Clause licence too;
``sys/queue.h`` was also copied from NetBSD, but it's covered by the BSD 3-Clause
licence and its ownership is claimed by The Regents of the University of California.
licence, with its ownership claimed by The Regents of the University of California;
``sys/cdefs.h`` came from [Alpine Linux](https://alpinelinux.org) at some point
in history, but it hasn't a copyright header --- and, to be honest, it isn't
in fact copyrightable, since it does only provide some aliases to macros
[utilized improperly](https://wiki.musl-libc.org/faq.html#Q:-When-compiling-something-against-musl,-I-get-error-messages-about-%3Ccode%3Esys/cdefs.h%3C/code%3E)
by some folks in programs, since it should be only used internally at the
GNU C Library.

The test of ``error_at_line``(3) was taken from GNU m4 1.4.18 configure
Shell script, so it's covered --- or better, not covered --- by the
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