[CL] Common Logic TR

[John F. Sowa]

Pat,

I agree with you, and that is exactly what I intend to do:

 > There is a simpler and still faster method. The TR need have
 > nothing to do with ISO, but simply be released by the people
 > who write it. This has the great merit of allowing it to be
 > freely distributed (or more generally for its distribution
 > to be under the control of its authors), and does not interfere
 > with the ISO process. I suggest we simply go ahead and write
 > a TR about CL, for the world to read. We can always change
 > it to accommodate to any changes that get made in the standard
 > as they happen.

I am publishing everything I put in either the standard or the
TR on my web site.  As appropriate, I excerpt material from
that version and modify it to fit the standard, and I intend
to do the same for the TR.  The two forms won't be identical,
but there will certainly be a large overlap.  I will sign over
the copyright to the ISO version to ISO, but I have not the
slightest intention to relinquish full control of my previously
published material.

 > I see no advantages to the TR being an official ISO document
 > and quite a lot of disadvantages.

I have *ZERO* sympathy with publishers who think they have a
right to take material which I give them for free and then
claim that they have a right to prevent me from using my own
material as I see fit.

If I produce a "work for hire", where I am actually getting
paid an honest wage for my efforts, I am willing to accept some
restrictions.  But whenever I sign a copyright transfer form
to any publisher that is not giving me a penny, I always write
in the sentence "The author reserves the right to reuse some
or all of the material in this document in future publications."
I include it immediately above my signature, and nobody has
every complained.

It galls me to write an acknowledgment of the form "The author
thanks the publisher for *graciously* allowing him to reprint
the following excerpts."

John