Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pilchuck!dataio!bright
From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: a couple quickies / copyright
Message-ID: <1455@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 88 22:24:37 GMT
References: <11140@brl-adm.ARPA> <6967@brl-smoke.ARPA> <23133@rebel.UUCP>
Reply-To: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <11140@brl-adm.ARPA> TLIMONCE%DREW.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
>My understanding is that the drafts and the actual standard are released
>into the public domain.  Correct?

My understanding is that they are copyrighted. The problem I ran into is that,
as a compiler vendor, I wanted to use the ANSI descriptions of the library
functions in the compiler manual. It seems rather pointless to be forced
to rewrite the definition so it is 'distinct but equivalent'.