The following is a list of software projects maintained in the NetBSD (and/or pkgsrc) source tree to consider for individual distribution for third-party use. Some of the following software is already distributed standalone.

## ash/sh
Debian/Ubuntu use GPL'ed dash, which is derived from NetBSD ash.

## bmake/pmake
Already provided by Linux distributions (like Fedora and Debian).

## calendar

## editline/libedit
Alternative to GNU Readline. Already provided by Linux distributions (such as Fedora) and used in various projects, e.g. PostgreSQL.

## inetd


## ipsec-tools / racoon
User-space IPsec tools for various IPsec implementations.
<ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/ipsec-tools/>

## iscsi-target
Packaged by Fedora.

## libatomic
Atomic operations for many architectures.

## libc
Alternative to glibc and uClibc. Used by MINIX3 and partially by Android.

## libcontainer
Red-black tree, patricia-tree, radix trees.

## libhash
Collection of hash functions.

## libprop/proplib
Property Container Object Library. PropertyList aka plist API.

## libsaslc
Simple Authentication and Security Layer client library.

## makefs
Included in MirBSD and packaged by Debian.

## mtree


## nawk
? Only if we have improvements and if upstream is not maintained.

## nbsed


## netpgp
PGP signing, verification, encryption and decryption library and utilities. Alternative to gpg and pgp.
<ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/LOCAL_PORTS/>

## netresolv
Networking related APIs, from historical BSD and former libbind.
[[individual-software-releases/netresolv]]

## nvi
? Only if we have improvements and if upstream is not maintained.

## rbootd
Packaged by Debian.

## rcorder (and rc.d scripts)

## stat
Included with Mac OS X.

## tnftp/ftp
Ftp and http command line client. Packaged by Debian. Included in Mac OS X.
<ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/>

## tnftpd/lukemftpd
Included with Mac OS X.
<ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/>

## vacation
Packaged by Debian.

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Also consider NetBSD Userland which would be a crunchgen'd suite of common utilities as a more featureful (working) alternative to BusyBox.

Other software to consider but currently have an upstream is bozohttpd, dhcpcd, and openresolv.