On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:17:15 +0000 (UTC)
Joseph Myers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The Makefile fetches the NIST archive from our website.
>
> The normal build and test process ("make" and "make check") must
> never rely on any network connectivity.
Fair enough. I haven't added the NIST tests and documentation for 2 reasons:
1. $ ls -sh gcc/cobol/nist/newcob.val.Z # source code archive
4.3M gcc/cobol/nist/newcob.val.Z
2. Page 1 of the documentation contains
CCVS 85
USER GUIDE
Version 4.2
Copyright 1993
The National Computing Centre Limited All rights reserved.
The PDF document, for reference, is 7.1 MB.
As I mentioned in other posts, IMO (IANAL) the copyright in unimportant and
probably unenforceable. The National Computing Centre no longer exists, and
the document was also published by NIST which, as part of the US government,
does not copyright its publications.
I didn't want to ask the FSF their legal opinion until GCC agreed that it wants
to accept these artifacts into its repository. If you want me to do that, I
will.
--jkl
