SPDX Becomes Internationally Recognized Standard for Software Bill of Materials

> The funding situation ...

Out of curiosity I looked it up. The latest ISO annual report[1] is from 2019. It shows total revenue as 43,157,000 CHF, around $50 million USD. A bit less than half of that comes from sales royalties and direct sales. So it would cost around $20 mil USD/year for the standards to be publicly available without ISO losing any revenue. Over half that is from royalties though, so member organizations (e.g. ANSI) would potentially be out of revenue too. Overall, considering the companies involved and the global scope, the dollar amounts are trivial. ISO is a NGO (non-governmental organization) based in Switzerland.

[1] PDF page 33, https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/store/e...