From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2737 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2003 15:54:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 2730 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2003 15:54:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 4 Jan 2003 15:54:36 -0000 Received: by nile.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 338) id 033D6F28C4; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 10:54:24 -0500 (EST) To: jamesbuch@iprimus.com.au, neil@daikokuya.co.uk Subject: Re: ISO C and C++ Standards Docs Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Message-Id: <20030104155424.033D6F28C4@nile.gnat.com> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 16:01:00 -0000 From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00137.txt.bz2 > James Buchanan wrote:- > > > I said "free." I don't have that amount of money to spare. > > And the answer should be obvious from my reply. It sure is a pity that these documents are not available for free downloading. One of the really nice accomplishments in the Ada standardization process was to keep the copyright open, so that the Ada standard can be downloaded. Well, actually, to be strict, the official ISO version cannot be downloaded but it differs only in the (extremely annoying) respect that ISO removed the very useful paragraph numbers from the officially published version. This was achieved by simply demanding it and making it clear that this was non-negotiable. Basically, we said "OK, ISO, either you let us freely publish, or we won't give you the copyright to publish the standard. We would rather have a freely available ANSI standard without the ISO brand name than an ISO-branded standard that costs money".