[Openicc] GoSoC 2011: opensource and ICC licenses

[Jan-Peter Homann]

Hello all,
Based on this proposal, we should also have a a look at Creative Commons 
CC-licenses:
http://creativecommons.org/

Creatice Commons are used for all forms of digital content (e.g. images, 
texts, wensites, PDFs, videos, audio, fonts etc.) where the author wants 
to control what is allowed to do with digital file and what not.

CC-Licenses have three layers:
- machine readable
- human readable
- legal code

see also:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

I would recommend to use the ICC copyright tag to include the approbiate 
CC licence directly into the ICC-profile.

Best regards
Jan-Peter


Am 06.05.11 16:45, schrieb Ann McCarthy:
> So the proposed ICC profile license clause of:
> "This profile is made available by [profile provider], with permission 
> of [profile vendor], and may be copied, distributed, embedded, made, 
> used, and sold without restriction. Altered versions of this profile 
> shall have the original identification and copyright information 
> removed and shall not be misrepresented as the original profile."
>
> perhaps could be slightly altered by inserting the word 'internal":
> "This profile is made available by [profile provider], with permission 
> of [profile vendor], and may be copied, distributed, embedded, made, 
> used, and sold without restriction. Altered versions of this profile 
> shall have the original internal identification and copyright 
> information removed and shall not be misrepresented as the original 
> profile."
>
> An ICC profile has numerous internal markers that indicate the maker, 
> etc., and these are the fields that should be used to indicate the 
> profile contents are changed. Perhaps the profile filename is not the 
> absolute critical piece. Something to consider...
>
> Best regards,
> Ann L McCarthy
> Imaging Systems R&D
> Lexmark International, Inc.
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:24 PM, James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com 
> <mailto:cloos at jhcloos.com>> wrote:
>
>     >>>>> "er" == edmund ronald <edmundronald at gmail.com
>     <mailto:edmundronald at gmail.com>> writes:
>
>     er> I think there is some part of the conversation which I have missed
>     er> here.  Anyone want to forward it, or educate me?  I am not a
>     lawyer
>
>     Clauses along the lines of "you can't change it w/o also renaming it"
>     were determined to be incompatible with the GPL some time ago.
>
>     One of the goals of the GPL is to allow those who receive software to
>     fix it and distribute those fixes.  That goal is not compatible with
>     "you can't change it w/o also renaming it".
>
>     The debian-legal list's archives are probably the best place to read
>     about it.  The FSF, I think, also has a relevant, archived list.
>
>     That incompatibility was an issue for TeX; DEK's license for TeX,
>     metarfont and the CM fonts included such a clause.
>
>     IIRC Don agreed to some slight change to get past that issue.  I
>     suspect
>     something along the lines of "if you change it w/o renaming it
>     then you
>     have to acknowledge that you did so" instead of the original language.
>
>     So, to be GPL compatible, you have to allow changes w/o requiring
>     renaming, but you can require that any changes be declared.
>
>     -JimC
>     --
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