[Openicc] GoSoC 2011: opensource and ICC licenses

[edmund ronald]

Of course, in the end, if someone decides that printing with profiles is
patented we have a problem. Is it?

Edmund

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:

>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc#Profilesforstandardprintconditionandtheirlicences
> will give you some glue in the sentence before the last one.
>
> Typical I licenced under zlib/libpng but would like to converge slowly
> with the license used on the ICC site which is very liberal.
>
>
> kind regards
> Kai-Uwe Behrmann
> --
> developing for colour management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org
>
>
> Am 05.05.11, 15:21 +0200 schrieb edmund ronald:
>
>  I think there is some part of the conversation which I have missed here.
>> Anyone want to forward it, or educate me?  I am not a lawyer :)
>>
>> Edmund
>>
>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:17 PM, edmund ronald <edmundronald at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>>  WTF? *I* am the person who will initially be releasing the profiles for
>>> distribution, and *I* will be writing the license to those profiles (as
>>> the
>>> software author does not claim any) and *I* intend to GPL or creative
>>> commons license any profiles for distribution with Gutenprint. Or any
>>> another license you like, eg.BSD.
>>>
>>> Anyone else who wants to crowdsource profiles with Argyll are welcome to
>>> do
>>> the same.
>>>
>>> Here is the profile license clause for Argyll, taken from
>>> http://www.argyllcms.com/doc/ArgyllDoc.html
>>> -------
>>> "Note that unlike many commercial ICC profiling tools, the profiles
>>> created
>>> using Argyll, are not subject to any claims or restrictions of Argyll's
>>> author(s), but are assumed to be the copyright property of the person who
>>> gathers the characterization data, and causes the profiles to be
>>> created."
>>> ------
>>>
>>> Edmund
>>>
>>>
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