Hello KTSnowy!
Saturday August 06 2022 21:45, KTSnowy wrote to All:
Let me make this easier for you :
Access any of the Cobol standard documents from ISO, such as the 1989:2014
or ISO/IEC 1989:202x (E) edition
Go to the start of the Index and go back 2 pages to the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
page.
There you will see the following and shown here verbatim :
[
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.
No warranty, expressed or implied, is made by any contributor or by the
CODASYL COBOL Committee as to the accuracy and functioning of the
programming system and language. Moreover, no responsibility is assumed by
any contributor, or by the committee, in connection therewith.
The authors and copyright holders of the copyrighted materials used herein:
~~ FLOW-MATIC (trademark of Sperry Rand Corporation),
Programming for the 'UNIVAC (R) I and II, Data Automation Systems
copyrighted 1958,1959, by Sperry Rand Corporation;
~~ IBM Commercial Translator Form No F 28-8013, copyrighted 1959 by IBM;
~~ FACT, DSI 27A5260-2760, copyrighted 1960 by Minneapolis-Honeywell
have specifically authorized the use of this material in whole or in part,
in the COBOL specifications. Such authorization extends to the reproduction
and use of COBOL specifications in programming manuals or similar
publications.
]
Now accepting they cannot spell correctly acknowledgement
What part of these statements do you NOT understand.
While the Standard document has its own copyright as any created document
has from the authors some / most of its content is already subject to
copyright from the original authors and their agents via CODASYL and that
organisation was paid to create such by the U.S. Government via the U.S.
Navy to produce a conforming programming language that can be used by all
vendors of computer equipment that release copyright in order to use such
material without any restrictions.
The can be nothing in the Cobol content of the ISO document that can
override that legal declaration.
There again why on earth are you bothering with the Cobol standard that is
designed to be used by Cobol compiler developers and NOT Cobol Programmers.
The language is such that every compiler developer has to rewrite all
language descriptions so that Cobol programmers can understand it without
any ambiguous content that can be misconstrued. In other words - hard to
understand :)
If you are creating a training course, to join the many handreds out their
all ready I suggest you try and stick to a specific Cobol compiler and use
its Programming Language manual as a source for your subject matter.
The standard is the last document you want to use.
Vincent
Vincent