[CREATE] colour lists; in Oyranos?

Craig Bradney cbradney at zip.com.au
Thu Sep 15 15:29:28 PDT 2005


On Thursday 15 September 2005 23:39, Craig Bradney wrote:
> 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.

cmsHPROFILE  cmsCreate_sRGBProfile(void); in lcms, I guess.

Craig


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