When I was starting to get into Lisp, the Common Lisp Hyper Spec (CLHS) was quite confusing. The formatting is off, much of the navigation is implemented using images, and despite the sites being packed, it was hard to find what one wanted to know. I have got used to it since, it is still kind of sad that one of the canonical references of the Lisp "community" is a non-free, not even any Creative Commons document, that cannot be updated or maintained by said users. It would be great if it could be redistributed as a SLIME package or as an Info document, but as it says "Copyright 1996-2005, LispWorks Ltd. All rights reserved." at the bottom of the page, it's not possible.
Sadly most alternatives I know of aren't as expansive. So has there ever been a push to get LispWorks to release the HyperSpec into some kind of a public domain/CC-BY-whatever state? If not, is it even feasible? Does anyone here know any details on it's history?