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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:23:07 -0500
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> Something I always wondered about. Why do the Ada standards
> have copy right on them by specific companies?

I don't know.  Intermetrics assigned their copyright to the U.S.
Government, but the others don't say that.  I've no idea what
that's all about.

>...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.

> Is this copyright just for the manual itself, or Ada
> the "language" in some sense?

I'm not a lawyer, but I think copyrights apply to documents,
not to languages or whatever else might be described by the
documents.

- Bob