[CREATE] KOffice profiles license

[Jon Phillips]

Adobe RGB and Adobe sRGB are surely protected under trademark law and
not copyright.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Leonard Rosenthol
<leonardr at pdfsages.com> wrote:
> Hub - I recall that discussion and I know that it was passed on to the
> powers that be.  I haven't looked at the updated language recently - have
> you?
>
> As far as the "Adobe RGB" profile available on that web site - it is indeed
> in violation of our copyrights for that name (if nothing else) and we are
> taking the appropriate steps.
>
> ON THE OTHER HAND - I can say that Adobe has been working with the ISO to
> publish the technical details of the Adobe RGB profile so that "clones" can
> be correctly and legally produced.  I expect that standard to be published
> sometime this year.
>
> Leonard Rosenthol
> Adobe Systems
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Hubert Figuiere <hub at figuiere.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:22 -0800, Jon Phillips wrote:
>> > Good, I've been fighting this one online recently. Factual data is not
>> > copyrightable.
>> >
>> > Releasing this type of information into the public domain is the right
>> > move. It will spread further too IMO.
>>
>> For now as it stand, the license does not even allow to freely
>> redistribute it as one is not allowed to even *repackage* (so much for
>> distro makers).
>>
>> Back then on the open-icc mailing list, when they where announced, I
>> criticized this and the dude from Adobe promised to look into it. That
>> was in 2005.
>>
>>
>> Hub
>>
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