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
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