[Cobolforgcc-devel] Re: [open-cobol-list] GCC front end for COBOL

[Tim Josling]

The only issue would be the copyright. While they have given permission 
to use the suite freely, it is not public domain, nor copyright FSF.

Bill Klein also pointed out it has not been updated for the second 
revision of COBOL 85 (the correction amendment).

Tim Josling

Robert Dewar wrote:
> Tim Josling said
> 
> 
>>1. A test suite. Existing languages have comprehensive test suites.
> 
> 
> I would think the standard COBOL test suite (used for GSA cobol validations
> at least in the past, not sure of current policy) would be a fine test
> suite for this purpose.
>