[CREATE] colour lists; in Oyranos?

[Craig Bradney]

On Thursday 15 September 2005 23:31, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> Am 15.09.05, 22:38 +0200 schrieb Craig Bradney:
> > On Thursday 15 September 2005 22:39, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> > > The profiles are in place. I bundled some in Oyranos available since
> > > some time from the www.behrman.name site.
> > > Peter Linnell helped splitting them by license terms, and everybody can
> > > now choose what is appropriate.
> > >
> > > sRGB/Lab/XYZ from Marti Maria. They are tagged with
> > > "no copyright, use freely". I consider sRGB the currently most
> > > important one.
> > > ECI/FOGRA print profiles have a Heidelberg license.
> > > L-Star/Photogamut with theyre licenses.
> >
> > The HP ones (sRGB), are still provided on the basis that the file is not
> > changed including the HP copyright tag, which means, as far as I have
> > been told, that they have to be considered non-free by Debian (as an
> > example, or others, of course). Therefore, they cannot be relied upon to
> > exist in the agreed location /usr/share/color/icc...
>
> Hmm, thats maybe an good question to an lawyer.
> Anyway I dont see an reason to not use sRGB as a name if it conforms with
> the sRGB spec IEC 61966-2-1.

Theres nothing wrong with the name...

> And thus the above sRGB profile is not from HP but from from Marti.

If thats the case, then we need one with a different copyright license. As it 
stands now, its not "free".

> Marti added an profile creator function and sRGB is allways present even
> if not on disk ;-).

If thats the case, and the sRGB profile creation code is GPL, then do you have 
a link? Right now, we need this code, as we need the profile.

> An application needs allways to check if there is the desired profile
> available and react if not -> create the sRGB.
>
> This matter is not only limited to this special profile.
>
> As well what does you think, should Oyranos check for sRGB and eventually
> create sRGB on startup?

Yes, for sure. When will Oyranos start to get into the distros? We are 
starting to need these functions, and either we duplicate the code, or do an 
"OpenOffice.org" and embed the current functions until Oyranos is.

regards
Craig