On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:38:39PM +0100, Kent Karlsson wrote:
>
> > >Access to that kind of information shouldn't be made on fee base; it is not
> > >for the price in itself (I can pay it), but the idea behind; do you imagine
> > >the Mendeleev table being available only for a fee ?
>
> Well, most books are available only for a "fee", to cover at least the
> printing and distribution costs; even books with the Mendeleev table
> in it, or books on Linux... But I understand what you mean, and agree.
I guess an acceptable compromise would be to have the electronically-useful
material free for use, and having people writing real books about the
standards (which, usually, are quite hard to read).
There are some precedents it seems, with the SGML entity sets, which have
the following licence:
(C) International Organization for Standardization 1986
Permission to copy in any form is granted for use with
conforming SGML systems and applications as defined in
ISO 8879, provided this notice is included in all copies.
Unfortunately, many other things in the SGML world seems mostly closed,
although available from some websites which do not tell you what you have
the right to do with those...
Making such material useable for the public would be great already, and
should not be hard/expensive to do I guess.
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