Re: ANSI requires licence fees to use ISO language and country code?

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 16:05:25 EST

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    > I heard that ANSI requires companies to pay a licence fee if they
    > use ISO language and country codes in their products.

    This is absolutely incorrect. One has to pay to buy a hard copy of these
    standards, and I think part 2 of ISO 3166 can only be obtained by purchase.
    But the code tables for ISO 3166-1 and ISO 639-1/-2 are published on-line,
    and it there are no fees required to make use of the identifiers in these
    code tables, including in commercial products.

    - Peter

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