Hi Alex, > > I have an archive of many drafts including (so far): > > > > 1.5M Sep 10 1998 N0843-C1999-CD-1998-08.pdf > > 3.4M May 6 2005 N1124-C1999+TC2-CD-2005-05.pdf > > 3.7M Sep 8 2007 N1256-C1999+TC3-CD-2007-09.pdf > > 1.7M Apr 12 2011 N1570-C201X-CD-2011-04.pdf > > 2.3M Oct 9 2017 N2176-C2017-CD-2017-10.pdf > > 6.7M Jan 24 11:37 N3088-C2023-CD1-2023-01.pdf > > > > which can be downloaded as: > > > > https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n####.pdf > > Do you know if we can distribute them? which license applied to them? > I'm worried that some distros are very strict in what can be distributed > in a package (e.g., Fedora, Debian (main)). There were issues with > man-pages-posix in the past. > > Should we maybe open a separate project iso-c-drafts that installs > drafts of the ISO C standards and maybe some scripts that will be useful > with them? > This is probably a legal gray area and I'd be careful. ISOs license agreement[0] explicitly states the following: > The ISO publication(s) you order is/are copyrighted by the International > Organization for Standardization. You acknowledge and agree to respect ISO’s > copyright in our publications by purchasing, downloading, copying or > otherwise using (an) ISO publication(s). Except as provided for under this > Licence Agreement, you may not lend, lease, reproduce, distribute or > otherwise commercially exploit ISO publication(s). In the case of joint > standards (such as ISO/IEC standards), this clause shall apply to the > respective joint copyright ownership. As we (or a third party) can only produce a plaintext version by downloading the original PDF draft and converting it, we agree with the above. Thus, we can't "reproduce" or "distribute" the standard, at least that's my understanding[1]. I highly doubt that major distibutions would take that risk, nor should we. [0] <https://www.iso.org/terms-conditions-licence-agreement.html#Customer-Licence> [1] For the record: I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. It's very well possible that I've overlooked something. -- Best Regards, Tom Schwindl
