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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:04:51 -0600
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Date: 2013-02-26T16:04:51-06:00
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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message 
news:wcchakzryys.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
> "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:
...
>>...How does
>> this relate to Ada being open/ISO/ANSI etc... standard?
>
> All of the copyright holders grant liberal permissions to
> copy (read the part starting "This document may be copied...").
> That makes it pretty "open".  You won't find that kind of
> wording in (say) your favorite Robert Ludlum novel.

Right. And more importantly, if we had just given the copyrights to ISO 
(which is the normal procedure), then the Standard would not be "open" in 
any practical sense: you'd have to pay ISO in order to distribute it (with 
some exceptions that have been created in recent years). As such, we've been 
keeping the ISO and original versions of the Standard separate, and 
maintaining the original "anyone may copy" wording.

My understanding was that this was vetted by MITRE's lawyers back in the 
Corrigendum days (that's why the second set of wording is different than the 
first); I've maintained the same wording on more recent editions but we 
haven't rechecked if the "law" has changed significantly (I'm surely not a 
lawyer, either, other than for Ada :-).

                                                   Randy.