Re: Using the ANSI standard for info-look

[Jesper Harder]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>     Any objection to the patch below?
>     It corrects the regexp for Lisp symbols (to be like the one used for 
> elisp),
>     it corrects the case-sensitivity, and it adds an entry to use the Texinfo
>     rendition of the ANSI CL standard if available.
>
> Please don't add the reference to the ANSI standard.  It is not free.

True.  Although, it might turn out that /is/ public domain.  According
to Kent Pitman:

  Lars Brinkhoff <address@hidden> writes:         
  > How about the Common Lisp dpANS documents?  I was under the impression 
  > that they were released under public domainish terms, but now that I 
  > look, I can't find any copyright notice. 

  You're right that there isn't a proper notice per se.  Documents do 
  exist (but are not on display publicly) that would show that the legal 
  intent was to have placed them into the public domain, even though we 
  botched the final execution of that.  A good intellectual property 
  lawyer would tell you that this means the legal status is messy, but 
  what that really means (I believe) is that those who paid for its 
  creation could (hypothetically) have grounds to make a claim that it 
  was encumbered in some way, that is, to assert that they have some 
  right of ownership.  But since all of those parties at one time or 
  another signed into this system of contracts identifying that the 
  intent was to make a public domain document, I don't personally think 
  they would succeed.