On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 6:28 PM Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On Sunday, 9 April 2023 19:14:10 -03 Breno Guimarães wrote:
> > Is this discussion still appropriate for this mailing list? I've been
> > following but it seems that the "proposal" part is gone.
>
> Partially. I've already taken the licensing discussion off-list.
>
> The discussion on the merits of the feature are still somewhat relevant,
> because Phil is indicating he'd like to make a feature proposal out of it.
> Though we seem to be quite far from it at this point.
>
> It would also require making it unencumbered of patents so any implementer can
> implement it, royalty-free too. The exact requirements of the WG are not
> something I am familiar with, though.

According to the ISOCPP website
(https://isocpp.org/std/submit-a-proposal), you have to "conform to
the ISO/IEC JTC 1 policies on copyrights, patents, and procedures."
And there are a bunch of links there that seem to go into a bit more
detail on this.