Re: Cobol 85 Standard

I think you could get away with copying the specific material mentioned
(FLOWMATIC etc. - if you could actually identify it and if it were of any
use today) but as for the rest you'd certainly be in for some serious
head-butting.  There is precedent in copyright law for excluding certain
types of content from copyright protection - such as, a list of ingredients
for a recipe - and it may be possible to argue that the meta-statements are
therefore exempt - but I can't afford to try it!

If you are faced with two opposing sets of instructions, such as here,
logically you can do what you please, but law is not about logic!

PL

William M. Klein <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> That is a VERY sore point in my life.  There was a lot of discussion about
this
> in the past.  I can't give legal advice (and certainly not here) but you
COULD
> ask INCITS, but my best guess is that they would just tell you that as it
is not
> a current standard, they won't answer.
>
> --
> Bill Klein
>  wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
> "tim" <TimJ@internet.com> wrote in message
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