PDF legal issues

Hello,
Not sure if it is the right forum to ask but here are my questions:
The PDF Reference is a copyrighted material. Is it possible to freely quote from the PDF Reference in an online documentation of a library which generates PDF documents?
Also, are there any copyright/license/patent issues a developer of a PDF library should be aware of?
Thanks,
Jarda

Or maybe another way will help explain how I would approach it (in my
entirely non-legal advice way, just my own practices).
Consider whether the purpose of what you are writing could ONLY be
served by an exact quote.
Examples where only an exact quote would do:
* A reviewer commenting on the writing style of a sentence
* A writer talking about the rhymes in a poem
* A detailed technical analysis of a phrase in a specification
Even so, it needs to be short; for longer discussions the reader must
be ready to refer to the original. 1-2 sentences from a long work is
probably the limit I would consider.
What is clear is that you cannot use quotes because it is more
convenient, more quick, or even if you can't manage to express the
concept well in your own words. Fair use is NEVER justified simply
for convenience, to save time, or to get something written that you
otherwise wouldn't be able to.
An example of this: when I wrote PSAlter, a PostScript interpreter, I
wanted detailed help for each PostScript operator. Convenient
solution, which would have saved months of work: copy and paste from
the PostScript Reference. Actual solution: entirely new writing,
having read the Reference, closed it, written the new description,
then reopened the Reference and checked for factual accuracy; taking
care to write in my own style rather than falling into a pattern of
imitation.
One other point about the ISO standard, and a key reason why I have
reservations about the desirability of transitioning standards to ISO.
Many people mistakenly assume that an "open" standard is a "free"
standard. Far from it. ISO 32000 is not freely downloadable at all,
and copies of ISO standards are priced by the page. A single copy for
personal use from ISO.org costs CHF 370 (about US$340 today). The
result of this tends to be casual use, and even implementation of
commercial products, based on out of date information in the older
publicly available documents.
Aandi Inston

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