[cxx-abi-dev] Copyright/license for the ABI?

[Sassan Hazeghi]

Mark:  Public Domain designation seems a good solution for a specification
(such as the IA64 ABI) where the main value is based on its wide adoption by
the developer community.

Thanks for hosting and the upkeep of the document,

Sassan.
 
Mark Mitchell writes:
 > Someone's finally asked: who the heck has the copyright on the C++ ABI,
 > and what's restrictions (if any) are on other people using it?
 > 
 > Unfortunately, at this point, I don't think we really know all the
 > people/organizations who contributed to the ABI.  I'm pretty sure that
 > all of:
 > 
 >   CodeSourcery
 >   Compaq
 >   EDG
 >   HP
 >   Intel
 >   Red Hat
 >   SGI
 > 
 > participated, plus some individuals like Martin von Loewis.
 > 
 > So, I expect that technically all of those contributors (or their
 > assignees) share in the copyright.
 > 
 > I think that everyone fully expected that the document would be freely
 > available to everyone with basically no restrictions.
 > 
 > If so, perhaps we should put a notice on the document indicating that it
 > is in the public domain.
 > 
 > Are there any objections to that?
 > 
 > -- 
 > Mark Mitchell
 > CodeSourcery, LLC
 > mark at codesourcery.com