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- From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@smoke.brl.mil>
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- In article <557@longway.TIC.COM> stephen@temvax.uucp (Stephen C. Arnold) writes:
- >Where can I get a copy of this standard and how much does it cost? If
- >possible (and legal) could someone post the standard as a series of articles
- >on the net.
- >[ Doubtless someone else will provide the detailed legalities,
- >but as moderator I feel compelled to note that posting ANSI
- >standards would not be legal unless approved by ANSI, so if
- >anyone was thinking of scanning it in and mailing it to me,
- >forget it: I won't post it; I don't want to get sued by ANSI.
- >-mod ]
-
- Actually, one of the interesting things we heard at the NYC X3J11
- meeting last week was that CBEMA lawyers looked into this issue and
- discovered that X3 has no copyright interest in the standard, and
- neither does ANSI (although probably ANSI's lawyers haven't yet
- figured this out). That's because these organizations failed to
- obtain assignment of rights from the authors, and it also doesn't
- qualify as a "work for hire". So as near as I can tell, once you
- get your hands on the document you may freely make copies of it.
-
- As of last week, ANSI had not yet printed the official C standard,
- although it's imminent. There are xerographic copies in circulation,
- however; practically all attendees of the NYC X3J11 meeting have them.
- I'm not sure what channels you can use to obtain the ANSI standard,
- although presumably asking ANSI would be the first step. (I seem to
- recall hearing that Global Engineering Documents is probably *not*
- going to be distributing the real ANSI standard.)
-
- I don't think machine-readable postings would be worthwhile; not only
- is that a vast amount of information (230 typeset pages, not including
- the Rationale document), but also the standard relies heavily on font
- variations so you really need the troff input, which is hard to read.
- Since you'd probably end up printing hardcopy anyway, you might as well
- get that from ANSI to be sure that your page breaks etc. precisely
- match the real standard.
-
- If you have the December 1988 X3J11 draft proposed ANS, that is quite
- close to the final ANSI standard, differing only in a few "editorial"
- ways. (Actually, a couple of the tweaks clarified the committee's
- intent where the standard could legitimately have been read as having
- an unintended meaning, as I recall both involving details of fscanf.)
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- Volume-Number: Volume 18, Number 72
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