Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bo Persson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: [ OT ] C - Open Standards Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 12:19:36 +0200 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net jdiYc8ofADkxm3yDnVJA2QPVGyCcez3TC0UM8KpbVHzML1rIDV Cancel-Lock: sha1:JuwdPRZhq87qpK2aAZu0+Fqka0w= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: sv Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:161747 comp.lang.c++:80695 On 2021-07-08 at 10:21, Juha Nieminen wrote: > In comp.lang.c++ Real Troll wrote: >> I have managed to find direct links to the official standard and they >> are here: >> >> >> >> > > Note that something being directly available for download, even if it's > hosted at the IP owners' own servers, doesn't make it somehow automatically > legal to download if the documents are under a commercial license. > Making something available without technical barriers is not in itself > any sort of implicit free license. > > (I don't know if those documents are commercial. Merely pointing out > that fact.) > I am not a lawyer :-), but these papers are not official ISO documents, so no commercial license. Especially humorous is n1256. ISO official documents are the C99 official standard, plus three separate corrigenda - TC1, TC2, and TC3. ISO never published a "corrected" standard, just these four separate documents. In preparation for the C11 work, the committee then produced a "working draft" with the TCs applied to the C99 standard. You need to have a base document, right? And arguably a lot better than the official one, as the bugs have been removed. However, ISO never published this intermediate version, only the completed C11 standard.