[Openicc] new/old ICC profile package

[edmund ronald]

You people are of course aware that non-free profiling software
usually comes with very strange shrink-wrap licenses?

Edmund

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
<bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Richard Hughes wrote:
>>
>> Usually AUTHORS is used for people that contribute to the project in a
>> substantial way, and not for individual files taken to form a
>> collaborative work. That said, different maintainers do things
>> differently.
>
> The author is the person who runs 'tar'?  This seems like a flimsy argument
> to me, particularly since the work done to create some of those individual
> files may dwarf the effort to create the collaborative work.  Perhaps a
> special program was written for the sole purpose of creating that individual
> file, and if the source code for that program is not included, then it may
> be roughly similar to distributing a binary executable without source code.
>
> I agree with Kai-Uwe that licenses address different issues and a license
> intended for executable programs may not be appropriate.
>
> Bob
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