From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: How to challenge a GCC patch?
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 04:14:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sj97uj$t25$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: sj6l3g$f9g$1@dont-email.me
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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote in message
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> 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).
I'm certain that is something that predates the ISO version of ASIS. There's
no such permission in the ISO document that I was sent as editor during our
last (aborted) revision attempt. Robert probably was using the pre-ISO
version as the source, all
> 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.
I don't see how using comments helps anything. The Oracle case makes it
pretty clear an API iteself can be covered by a copyright, and surely the
comments are covered by the copyright. And the ISO version has no copyright
statement other than the usual "All rights reserved".
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and cannot say anything for certain in these
matters.
Randy.
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-27 10:06 How to challenge a GCC patch? J-P. Rosen
2021-09-27 11:23 ` Stéphane Rivière
2021-09-27 14:18 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-28 7:38 ` Arnaud Charlet
2021-09-29 16:26 ` Stéphane Rivière
2021-09-29 19:04 ` Emmanuel Briot
2021-09-29 23:29 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 6:23 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 7:53 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 8:13 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 8:26 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 10:54 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 12:27 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 15:25 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-01 0:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-01 0:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-01 0:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-01 9:41 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-02 9:14 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2021-10-04 12:30 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-14 1:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-14 6:09 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 7:53 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 8:16 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 8:28 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 10:56 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 12:27 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-30 15:28 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 6:19 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-01 0:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-01 9:24 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-02 9:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-04 12:26 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-14 1:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-14 6:04 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 5:57 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 7:29 ` Arnaud Charlet
2021-09-30 7:52 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 8:21 ` Arnaud Charlet
2021-10-01 9:56 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-01 12:29 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-30 8:28 ` Fabien Chouteau
2021-09-27 12:48 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-27 14:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-28 6:55 ` Emmanuel Briot
2021-09-30 6:44 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-29 8:58 ` nobody in particular
2021-09-29 9:34 ` Emmanuel Briot
2021-09-29 10:03 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-29 11:03 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-09-29 11:07 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-29 18:58 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
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