Walter said:
I thought that N869 had an ISO WG14 copyright,
It's a draft version of the standard that was made freely available as
a PDF to the general public. It's was already out of date when the
official standard was approved, and became even more so with each of
the three Technical Corrigenda that was approved. This text version is
missing a lot of useful information that was presented in the PDF
original by formatting. It's also a lot harder to read, for the same
reason. It's mainly of use to people who find the search capabilities
of their PDF readers hard to use. For the rest of us, n1256.pdf is a
much superior document. I'm not sure precisely what the copyright laws
say about such things, but even if this is technically illegal, I
doubt that anyone cares enough to object. Lawrence Jones is
responsible for editing the official standard, and I'm reasonably sure
he's seen CBFalconer's many previous references to this file, and has
yet to voice an objection.