Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Is it legal to download K&R from this site ? Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 10:32:46 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <5bd1fc96-6957-4008-9511-de22b9e18a9c@googlegroups.com> <5f4ef2ef-426e-265b-b0c3-c42d76dc5a7a@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5b75f8dd226436b078478393b0f38f01"; logging-data="20250"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Vn7EtMgV33KxzDp9K5YJw" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zZkXjBllG1HEC+ZMF117Tst8Lpk= sha1:TqU52vfpKare9YC7gGId8qXCq5c= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:103691 void writes: [...] > Drafts can give C programmers a quick view on new features but these > documents are incomplete descriptions of future standards. Of course, > there are free of charge (minus your ISP provider cost) because there > are working document in progress. Who would pay for incomplete > products? I personally used draft of C9x and rationales (very > educative to understand the C library implementation) to learn C90 > wich could be enough to begin C programming. Later I bought K&R > because I prefer to get the C Bible at hand when I need to clear or > complete my knowledge. People should know that a physical book is a > true portable document contrarily to a digital book chained to a > reader with digital restrictions management. Please limit your line length to 80 characters or less, preferably about 72. Not all digital books have restrictions. The PDF drafts of the C standard, particularly n1256.pdf and n1570.pdf, have no DRM restrictions. My PDF copy of the ISO C11 standard, which I paid for, does have some kind of DRM (my reader says it's password protected, but I've never been prompted to enter a password), and the bottom of each page says its licensed to me personally. I'm able to copy-and-paste from it. I did have to agree to some terms when I bought it, but those terms are not directly enforced. [...] -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"