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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:07:07 -0400 John Cowan <jcowan@r...> wrote: > Dave Beckett scripsit: > > > The incorporation of the complete ISO 3166-1 standard document in commercial products may be > > subject to a charge. > > The operative word is "complete"; if you add the standard as an appendix to > a book, for example, you have to pay a royalty for it, like any other kind > of proprietary content. It's still rather uncertain. The list of codes is the complete standard as far as I'm concerned. This is mostly widely available as a document on their web site. So if I put this complete document in my software (software source is a document) it begs the question still of whether that is allowed. In my case, I ship free software which comes with source so it's more clear that their document might be "in" my product. I'm pretty sure they aren't refering to the physical standard document in paper form, since you can buy PDFs of these things. So what are the terms of "incorporation"? The "commercial" word is a red herring from my point of view; I don't limit or even check (even if that were possible) what use people are making of my software but people are using it for profit. I don't presently charge for it, but the above phrase would restrict me or anyone else including the codes and doing so. Dave
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