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Patrick --

The following explanation is what is happening, I think, and I Do Not Speak
for IBM:

- Your request requires IBM to make a specific exception to their
copyright that would need extensive legal documentation to prevent it being
a general surrender of copyright to the public domain.
- The business case to do so is not compelling enough to cause IBM to
spend thousands of dollars working on granting your request, even if it
came to the attention of someone who had the authority to consider such a
request.
- Your request has not even reached such a person and most likely never
will.

Unlike Don Quixote, you should choose your battles. If legacy stuff is your
passion, a better use of your time might be to write a textbook about COBOL
on IBM i for the new generation. There has not been a new textbook in over
a decade, and there's a lot of legacy COBOL out there whose maintainers are
retiring, retired, or deceased!

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 9:51 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Jim,

Am 03.04.2023 um 17:28 schrieb Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

You are fighting IBM legal.

I don't want to "fight". I seek contact to a responsible person or a
person in the responsible department



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