While there are tools called "localedef" in Solaris and Linux, this tool does not share heritage with any other implementation. It was written independently by Garrett D'Amore while employed at Nexenta Systems, and thus carries the Nexenta Copyright. It was initially released under the CDDL license, but on 4 July 2014, Nexenta reissued the source under the BSD 2-clause license. This code is part of the Illumos project. see: https://github.com/Nexenta/illumos-nexenta/commit/cf17542a37fc83d0ae093777e30d480423858c29 Note that localedef is bundled with avl from OpenSolaris, which still has the CDDL licensing. It is not used anywhere else on DragonFly at the time of this writing.