Proposal

[Kai Henningsen]

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