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> the specification is CC-BY-ND (the latter is notably less free, albeit for good reasons)

Anyone know what these "good reasons" are? I recall Stallman himself does the same thing, licensing his prose in a non modifiable format. To me it seems in screaming opposition to the idea of copyleft -- "make all the changes you want, but be sure to distribute them".

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I hope this isn’t incorrect, but I recall Drew once saying he didn’t want people to make variations of the language by forking the compiler and changing a page or two of the spec, since that would result in slightly incompatible code.

“don’t put words in my mouth”, i assume.

Sure, but nothing stops the would-be word-putter from crafting an entirely novel false narrative.

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