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Any organization interested in reproducing the COBOL report and specifications in whole or in part, using ideas taken from this report as the basis for an instruction manual or for any other purpose is free to do so. However, all such organizations are requested to reproduce this section as part of the introduction to the document. Those using a short passage, as in a book review, are requested to mention COBOL in acknowledgment of the source, but need not quote this entire section.COBOL is an industry language and is not the property of any company or group of companies, or of any organization or group of organizations.
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Procedures have been established for the maintenance of COBOL. Inquiries concerning the procedures for proposing changes should be directed to the Executive Committee of the Conference on Data Systems Languages.
The authors and copyright holders of copyrighted material:
- Programming for the UNIVAC® I and II, Data Automation Systems copyrighted 1958, 1959, by Unisys Corporation;
- IBM Commercial Translator, Form No. F28-8013, copyrighted 1959 by IBM®;
- FACT, DSI 27A5260-2760, copyrighted 1960 by Minneapolis-Honeywell
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