[Openicc] Adobe Color Profiles for Linux

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Patrice Lagrange wrote:

> Kai-Uwe,
>
> Upon your request a few months ago, we have packaged the Adobe Color
> Profiles for Linux and made them available for use and redistribution. We
> have also improved the licensing terms and process to facilitate the
> redistribution itself.
>
> We hope that these changes will be useful to the Linux community. Let me
> know of any question or concern. Any feedback is welcome.

This is very good news and very much appreciated.  I notice that the 
profiles are distributed in RPM format.  RPM is not a globally useful 
format since it is normally only used by systems which use the Red Hat 
Package Manager.  While RPM may be installed on many types of systems, 
it is not in global use across current Linux systems and does not 
address the needs of Sun's Solaris, SGI's IRIX, HP's HP-UX, IBM's AIX, 
DEC/Compaq/HP Digital Unix, and the several BSD systems.

There is also the issue that the license supports distribution as part 
of a software package and RPM does not serve well for this case.

Is it possible to release the package in a simple portable .tar.gz 
format as well?

It appears that software packages are allowed to re-package the 
software for distribution, but are not allowed to alter it, so it 
needs to be clear what constitutes the software which is not allowed 
to be altered.  For example, if the package is converted from RPM to 
some other form which otherwise preserves the content of the package, 
is that supported by the license?

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/