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Re: Proposal
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: Proposal
- From: kaih at khms dot westfalen dot de (Kai Henningsen)
- Date: 20 Sep 2001 16:46:00 +0200
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- Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding?
- References: <yly9ncoxsp.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
rra@stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) wrote on 18.09.01 in <yly9ncoxsp.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>:
> Robert Lipe <robertlipe@usa.net> writes:
>
> > ANSI sells online copies for $18 USD. It's a 1.4Mb PDF. Looking again,
> > I see it at:
>
> > http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/product.asp?sku=ANSI%2FISO%2FIEC+98
> > 99%2D1999
>
> > (Do we have any hangups about referencing "non-free" documents in
> > 'readings'?)
>
> The hangup in this case is likely to be the click-through license on that
> PDF file, which has some highly obnoxious clauses in it even above and
> beyond not allowing redistribution.
>From the last discussion about said license, it essentially said "we won't
be sued for that standard, no matter what you use it for", in lawyerese. I
thought that was entirely reasonable.
MfG Kai