On 04.04.2012 09:31, Stracke, Christian wrote: > Fourth, ISO standards can be used without any costs, without any licensing and > without any patent problems (if not clearly stated differently on the first > page).
Why then does the website ask for payment? Can I read the standard online somewhere, for free? > That means, only one person has to contribute the standard and then you can > use > it for any project including your Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia is dedicated to using free formats and standards only. Not only the development team, also people who want to *use* our data need to be able to read the relevant standards. For free. If thy have to pay to be able to read the standard, it's not a free standard, and thus not usable for a Wikimedia project. Daniel Kinzler -- Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Eisenacher Straße 2 | 10777 Berlin http://wikimedia.de | Tel. (030) 219 158 260 Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
