Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: copyright
Message-ID: <1990Feb9.192505.26290@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3109@paperboy.OSF.ORG> <1091@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <1938@pbhyg.PacBell.COM>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 90 19:25:05 GMT

In article <1938@pbhyg.PacBell.COM> balavi@PacBell.COM (Behzad Alavi) writes:
>           Copyrights seem to limit the scope of distribution
>           and usage, which are apparently not what International
>           Standards were designed to do.

Copyrights don't have to do anything of the sort; the issue is not whether
the stuff is copyrighted, but what restrictions the copyright holder places
on redistribution etc.

In practice, ISO seems to be exactly like all the other standards outfits:
the revenue from sales of high-priced documents is significant and they're
not prepared to give it up.  ISO does not have magic sources of funding
that eliminate all financial worries.
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