Re: POSIX P1003.5

[telesoft!garym@uunet.uu.net (Gary Morris @ignite)]

In <PASCALO.93Aug10170544@cln49ie.fr> pascalo@cln49ie.fr (Pascal Obry) writes:
>>      The POSIX P1003.5 committee is trying to work out an arrangement
>>      with the IEEE to make the POSIX/Ada package specifications
>>      available for distribution via email and anonymous FTP.
>>
>>Has there been any change in status on this?  I.E. have the package
>>specifications been made available yet?

>Yes, sort of. I have made, for the GNAT project, an implementation (~ 80%) of
>the POSIX P1003.5 binding to Ada.

>Anyway, at least 80% of the packages specifications are available via e-mail t
o
>me.

Doesn't the copyright on the POSIX standard, which includes the Ada
specifications, mean that the POSIX Ada specs are copyrighted by IEEE?  

That was my understanding, in which case the implementation specific version
of the specs developed for GNAT should be derived works, copyrighted by IEEE
and the GNAT project. 

--GaryM
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