DevInfo is distributed royalty-free to all Member States and United Nations system agencies for use on both desktops and the web.

The intellectual property─i.e. patents possibly present─of (parts of) the standard is made irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis.

The paper notes inter alia that since the 1970s, the policy of standards-setting organizations has been the requirement of the so-called reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) terms and that the OSS community strongly opposes RAND licensing terms and prefers the so-called Royalty Free (RF) licensing which is also supported by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

On the issue of investment conditions, certain requirements were important for Nestlé: the possibility to choose majority ownership and full management control of local subsidiaries, adequate remuneration for the transfer of technology (technical assistance fees and royalties) and free transfer of profits.

If the licensee had sublicensed the intellectual property and had also entered into a financing arrangement pursuant to which the licensee/sub-licensor granted a security right in its right to receive sub-royalty payments, the payments to the licensor under the continued prime licence agreement out of the sub-royalties would be free and clear of any claim of the secured creditor of the licensee/sub-licensor.