Re: who owns C
From: Barry Schwarz (schwarzb_at_deloz.net)
Date: 06/10/04
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Date: 10 Jun 2004 04:14:21 GMT
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:48:03 -0700, "Maboroshi" <n/a> wrote:
>Hi I was just curious about something for future reference
>
>Is ANSI C Open Source/Freeware or is it owned by a company
>
>Thank You if you reply
ANSI C is one of the generic names for the C language as defined by
one of the existing standards. ANSI is probably a trademark of the
American National Standards Institute but they don't own the language.
They do publish (sell) the standard that defines the language and that
document is copyrighted. But other standards organizations sell
similar documents which they copyright.
Open source and freeware are terms that apply to software products,
not the language itself. Some C compilers are open source, others are
freeware, others are shareware, and others are commercial. The same
is true for the link and run time "libraries" that support these
compilers. And for any "environment" (such as editors and debugging
tools) that may come with the compilers.
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