From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to challenge a GCC patch? Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 11:41:05 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 09:41:05 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9e13566cf6083b4e16d4351c3ee4fc19"; logging-data="15664"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/zFAFrAUeIdGyGFHFGZfvo" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:bdIY5dx8qkyFyqvzO1KL3uqhL6U= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: fr Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62915 List-Id: Le 01/10/2021 à 02:30, Randy Brukardt a écrit : > Umm, someone is confusing the original ASIS drafts with the ISO Standard > (which has an ISO copyright with no exceptions). I would definitely not > reference the ISO Standard in anything you are freely giving away -- there > are copyright trolls out there that could easily decide to get your material > banned from the Internet. > Strangely enough, my copy of ISO 15291 has no copyright statement at all; might be a "last draft" version. However, the headers of every ASIS-for-Gnat package state: "This specification is adapted from the Ada Semantic Interface Specification Standard (ISO/IEC 15291) for use with GNAT. In accordance with the copyright of that document, you can freely copy and modify this specification, provided that if you redistribute a modified version, any changes that you have made are clearly indicated." (and since that statement dates back to Robert Dewar's times, I'm pretty certain it is reliable). My memory is that all "interesting" part of the standard was deliberatly put as comments in the specification, precisely to circumvent the ISO copyright, and allow the use of ASIS without paying an outrageous price to ISO. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52 https://www.adalog.fr