[CREATE] best practices of 3rd party data embedding

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

Hi,

Here is an interesting situation we ran into with libcdr.

Corel DRAW embeds ICC profiles to CDR files to map colors to.
Conceptually it's pretty much what SVG does with the whole icc-color
thing. So *technically* it's possible to extract embedded ICC profiles
and re-embed them to an output SVG file, then map all colors via
icc-color accordingly *.

But how does it look like from legal standpoint? Should embedding be
opt-in? Or should there be some API for annoying users with a legal
question they probably wouldn't care to answer?

* Right now cdr2xhtml uses litlecms based conversion to sRGB via SWOP
v5 profile.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org