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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote in message 
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> If you are talking about the official ASIS specs ("like the packages in 
> the Ada RM"), they are part of an ISO standard, and as such under ISO 
> copyright. However, in the case of APIs, ISO allows their use by any 
> implementation (otherwise, they would be useless).

This is news to me. As far as I can tell, any API that is the bulk ofan ISO 
Standard *is* useless, because you need an ISO license to use it. Smaller 
APIs might be usable as "fair use", but they can't be 90% of the Standard's 
text, as in ASIS.

On what basis do you think that "ISO allows their use by any 
implementation"; I see no such thing in any ISO Standard??

                                     Randy.