[Openicc] License for redistributable profiles

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> I never paid any attention to Creative Commons before but now you have
>  brought my attention to it by discussing it on the list.  This is a
>  very strange organization which seems to be much better funded than
>  the FSF.  Huge amounts of money are being pumped into this
>  organization which claims to somehow serve a special purpose.  When I
>  look at the people behind the organization
>  (http://creativecommons.org/about/people/) I see that I have heard of
>  none of them before.  Not even a single member of the open source
>  community to be found or anyone who seems to have contributed anything
>  at all.

I'm delighted to inform you that Creative Commons is behind projects
like Open Clip Art Library. One of their CC's projects is ccHost - a
CMS for Open Clip Art, Mixter and other web services that provide free
(as in speech) content. I for my part hope to see ccHost in use by
more projects. In fact, I very much hope that one of the next
Inkscape's versions will feature not only Open Clip Art Library
integration (which it does in upcoming 0.46), but also tha planned
Open Assets Library integration (color swatches, patterns, gradients
etc.).

One of the " Not even single members of the open source community" is
Jon Phillips who is a long-time contributor to Inkscape project.
During Open Translation Tools 2007 conference I met two more people
from CC (I met Jon Philips face to face last year at Libre Graphics
Meeting) who also happen to contribute to open source.

Alexandre