[Openicc] ICC support for HDR Images

Kai-Uwe Behrmann ku.b at gmx.de
Wed Mar 26 08:37:51 PDT 2008


Am 26.03.08, 10:05 -0500 schrieb Bob Friesenhahn:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> > > Since SampleICC has a 4-clauses BSD licence, it has licence issue
> > > with GPL
> > > programs.
> > 
> > Is this something stated officially? My guess was it is basically a 4
> > clause BSD. Cant it still be linked in as library?
> 
> The license issue is a rather small one with a trivial work-around (i.e.
> compliance).  See
> "http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#OriginalBSD" and
> "http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html".  Interestingly, even though the FSF
> complains about the "advertising clause", there are somewhat similar clauses
> in GPL.

Well, it's not so comfortable to have a CMM forcing Oyranos to mention 
this one, while Oyranos itself is liberal about that.

So other options might fit better.

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org



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