🚀 go-pugleaf

In article 4vk@deneb.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de, Anselm Lingnau <lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> writes:
>In article <3vp7md$nl6@News1.mcs.net>,
>Jim Fleming <jim.fleming@bytes.com> wrote:
>
>> If another company or other companies implement the class library
>> as described in the standard, then can they take advantage of the
>> free advertising that you noted above and have their names embossed
>> on each copy of the standard...???
>
>I think Plauger gets mentioned because the standards folks liked his
>*prose* so much that they decided to save themselves some work and use
>it for the standard, citing Plauger's name in return. The fact that he
>also wrote C++ code is irrelevant, since the C++ standard doesn't
>talk about implementations.

Let me interrupt this discussion with a few facts.

The library sections of the draft had been written by many different
hands in many different styles, much of which was not couched in
language suitable for a standard. P. J. Plauger volunteered to rewrite
the entire set of library chapters (as they then existed) in a consistent
style suitable for inclusion in the standard, and he did so.  

Plauger also used the work he did as the basis of a book which was
subsequently published. Having written the material on his own,
Plauger owned the copyright to what he wrote (unless he later transferred
it to his publisher). The copyright acknowledgement on the cover of
the draft standard merely referred to an existing fact.

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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com