Hello!
My name is Christopher Bazley and I am a member of BSI (the British Standards Institution) and WG14 (the international standardization working group for the programming language C).
I would like permission to include some content from GLib in a paper that I soon plan to submit to the C standards committee, via the process outlined here: Contributing
The content comprises only undocumented g_string… function declarations, the GString type definition, and my own summary of their features and usage. I am citing them as ‘prior art’ in a paper proposing a standard string buffer type for the C programming language.
I order to participate in ISO activities, I had to accept their policies (ISO - Declaration for participants in ISO activities) which include:
“Content, such as publications, documents, text, figures, images or other content that you submit to the ISO or ISO/IEC standards development process may be copyright protected. Copyright in such content remains with the initial copyright owner. If you offer such content, you undertake to declare this to ISO or ISO/IEC, identify the name of the copyright holder and assist ISO or ISO/IEC in obtaining appropriate permission to i) share the content in the standards development process, ii) to publish the content, or parts thereof, in original or modified form in ISO or ISO/IEC standards and iii) to exploit the content as part of an ISO or ISO/IEC standard according to ISO and IEC practice.”
To be clear, my proposal is not simply to standardize the GLib functions, therefore I do not anticipate them being published “in original or modified form in ISO or ISO/IEC standards”. However, I would like to “share the content in the standards development process” (with appropriate acknowledgement of the licence and copyright which applies to GLib).
May I assume that my proposed usage is acceptable under the terms of the LGPL-2.1-or-later which apply to the library code?
Many thanks,
Chris
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