Does anyone here know how that works, because as it stands right now the ISO licensing is contradicting the Standard's own licensing.
Did you try asking for permission?
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"Any organization interested in reproducing the COBOL standard and specifications in whole or in part, using ideas fromCOBOL Standard:
"The copyright is owned by ISO. Any use of the content, including copying of it in whole or in part,ISO Copyright:
Did you try asking for permission?
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COPYRIGHT
I tried, I sent them an email and they told me to ask individual members from the ISO.
Therein lies the problem. You want "to build a
Standard COBOL documentation website because
[you think it] would help people learn the language
itself, independently from any compiler specific
extensions or implementation". To do that, you
would be copying much of the standard unmodified.
I am not a lawyer, but I am reasonably sure that
ISO would frown on that.
Did you try asking for permission?
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COPYRIGHT
I tried, I sent them an email and they told me to ask individual
members from the ISO.
"Any organization interested in reproducing the COBOL standard and specifications in whole or in part, using ideas from this document as
the basis for an instruction manual or for any other purpose, is free
to do so. However, all such organizations are requested to reproduce
the following acknowledgment paragraphs in their entirety as part of
the preface to any such publication (any organization using a short
passage from this document, such as in a book review, is requested to mention "COBOL" in acknowledgment of the source, but need not quote
the acknowledgment):
COBOL is an industry language and is not the property of any company
or group of companies, or of any organization or group of
organizations."
This is what the standard says, it's from the Acknowledgment section,
it completely contradicts the ISO copyright notice.
"Any organization interested in reproducing the COBOL standard and specifications in whole or in part, using ideas from this document asCOBOL Standard:
the basis for an instruction manual or for any other purpose, is free
to do so." <<
"The copyright is owned by ISO. Any use of the content, includingISO Copyright:
copying of it in whole or in part, for example to another Internet
site, is prohibited and would require written permission from ISO." <<
This is the issue, they're contradicting each other.
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