"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> I seem to have parts 1-5 .txt of sql99 on my computer here. I ftp'd them
> off some ftp site yonks ago. Anyone want them? Is it legal for me to have
> them or distribute them?
My understanding of the legal situation is that what's circulating
around the net in plain text form is *draft* versions of the spec.
It is okay to redistribute these freely. The *official* version
you are supposed to pay for.
No, I don't know how close the drafts really are to the final.
Personally I tend to consult the draft versions more than the PDF
versions anyway, because it's vastly easier to search flat ASCII
files than PDFs ... so I sure hope they're pretty close ...
regards, tom lane