Let's try this one on for size:
============================================================================== However, if you load the list of ISO/IEC 10646 character codes in a commercial product, thus giving an added value to your product, we consider it normal that ISO asks for the payment of a royalty fee. ==============================================================================
I assume that this is nothing more than an ill-expressed attempt to cover the
situation where someone is trying to sell a commercial publication repeating the
free information ISO provides.
In other words, I can understand that ISO (or ANSI) would not like to allow
people to charge for the publication of information since that's ISO's business.
However, it would be good to get confirmation of this interpretation (and to get
ISO to update their language). It's unacceptable to have this loose wording
impede the use of this kind of standard.
If there really is an attempt to license the use (= implementation) of the standard,
not just its republication, then the appropriate response might be to look for
alternatives.
A./
