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: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 08:09:26 +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: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 06:09:24 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="1ae8a5f41f5c99d658ed46c6120f5491"; logging-data="27638"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+JVNpC4RC8ywHjP60rWALm" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:x00c3ihWgskmVHf6J74vkNRFR4I= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: fr Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62996 List-Id: Le 14/10/2021 à 03:48, Randy Brukardt a écrit : > It's my (semi-informed) opinion that API Standards are useless, because you > have to violate the ISO copyright to use them (or buy a license). Standards are meant to be used. Therefore my not-better-informed opinion is that the problem has been addressed by ISO, with a decision that APIs, as defined in the standard, can be used. > Exactly. Someone copied 90% of the ASIS standard without permission, and > *that* is what you are using. And that is depriving ISO of possible revenue. Not at all. The exact specification of ASIS packages is part of the standard, including comments. And this standard has been approved by ISO, with comments. -- 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