Re: is (La)TeX and open format?

>>>>> Jon Haugsand <jonhaug@xxxxxxxxxx> (JH) wrote:

>JH> There exists standards that are published, but that you cannot make
>JH> your own implementation without paying. Are these "open"?

The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) uses the following requirements:

- Be adopted and maintained by a not-for-profit organisation, and its
ongoing development must occur on the basis of an open decision-making
procedure available to all interested parties.
- Be published and available either freely or at a nominal charge. It must
be permissible to all to copy, distribute and use it for no fee or at a
nominal fee.
- Make related intellectual property irrevocably available on a
royalty-free basis.
- Have no constraints on standard re-use.

The BSA protests against the third requirement (royalty-free).
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