[Openicc] Adobe Color Profiles for Linux

[PLinnell]

On Tuesday 29 November 2005 20:55, 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.
>
> Go to:
> http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html
>
> Patrice
>
> ------------------------------------------
> Patrice Lagrange
> Director, Linux Market Development and Strategy
> Adobe Systems
> 408-536-4074

Hi,

Thanks very much welcome news and yes these will be very useful. 
A quick read of the license tells me the re-distribution terms are 
reasonable and should allow them to be widely re-packaged. But, I am 
not a lawyer..

This phrase might be troublesome:

"If you distribute the Software on a standalone or bundled basis, you 
will do so by first obtaining the agreement of the end user under the 
terms of either the Adobe End User License Agreement ("Adobe EULA"), 
attached as Exhibit B, or your own license."

While I think you will find the folks who are interested in 
distributing the profiles are very respectful of trademark and 
copyright issues, "obtaining agreement" could mean some form of click 
through which is common on commercial software, where the same 
mechanism does not always exist in package managers. I am thinking of 
command line installs or if included with a larger distribution 
install.

If this could be clarified to mean, " as long as a copy of this 
license is included in all bundling or packages" , that is quite 
common, accepted and understood by most packagers.

One suggestion would be is to package them as a tar.gz or tar.bz2 and 
include the spec file inside. Or offer a gpg signed source rpm. RPM 
is widely used, but not always available for all Unix platforms. 

This would allow each OS to use their own native packaging and to 
resign the resulting packages. Then, there is a reasonable chain to 
check source authenticity, which is pretty important to most 
packagers.

Cheers,

Peter