ISO standards

[Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>]

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  > (Our promotion of ISO standards seems to violate the rules about
  > non-free documentation, FWIW.)

Our rules says we should not refer to ISO standards for the purpose of
documentation.  Our substitute is to write our own manuals for the
interfaces in question.  One of the purposes of the GNU C Library
Manual is to do that job.

However, it is ok to refer to non-free standards documents for other
purposes, such as for explaining why a certain feature is implemented
a certain way.  That's not "documentation" because it's outside the
function of a tutorial or a reference manual.

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