On 4/6/2023 8:07 AM, luigi scarso via ntg-context wrote:
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> On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 07:54, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> <ntg-context@ntg.nl <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>> wrote:
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>     Am 05.04.23 um 20:09 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
>      > On 4/5/2023 7:48 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
>      >> Forwarding from Mastodon:
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>      >> Adobe, Apryse, Foxit and PDFAssociation have partnered up and made
>      >> ISO32000-2 2020 (aka PDF 2.0),
>      >> ISO/TS 32001 (Extensions to Hash Algorithm Support in ISO
>     32000-2) and
>      >> ISO/TS 32002 (Extensions to Digital Signatures in ISO 32000-2)
>      >> available as sponsored papers ... so **FREE**.
>      >> Follow the links below; no valid email (or address) necessary:
>      >> https://www.pdfa.org/sponsored-standards/
>     <https://www.pdfa.org/sponsored-standards/>
>      > kind of interesting thatthe one from adobe is version 1 and the
>     other one 2
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>      > i'll wait till it's really free .. currently it still costs EUR
>     0, so
>      > one has to fill in some cart / form
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>     You can put in arbitrary data and then download.
>     I don’t think it will become any more free.
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> indeed, but then:  why don't  we put them on the wiki site / another
> free site ?

 > Any legal restrictions ?

Probably okay as long as one doesn't resell it for EUR 0 ...

It all looks a bit weird to me anyway "sponsored standards" esp with
sponsors mentioned on the cover instead of in thanks 'introduction'.

What happens when the sponsors withdraw? How does that legally work with
distributing? What is there are updates (unlikely anyway).