[Openicc] Setting copyright and licence in profiles

[Richard Hughes]

On 23 November 2012 15:52, Chris Murphy <chris at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> The ICC spec says to squash them together in the same tag, so until that changes that's where it's expected to be found.

Sure, that's not ideal tho. Maybe "No copyright and in the Public Domain".

> For profiles that copyright doesn't apply, how about GPLv2 licensed?

GPL isn't a great choice for binary files, the creative commons
licences seem much more suitable for content, e.g. CC0.

> Since the CMM doesn't consume the tag, it seems like the spec could change without changing CMMs.

Right, it's just another optional tag.

> The other way to look at this is that a copyright notice is less important than a licensing notice, and the copyright tag should tacitly be considered a licensing tag.

I do think some profiles need copyright *and* licence information.
Maybe I could just change the label in the GUI from "Copyright" to
"Usage" or something equally vague. It depends how easy it would be to
add another tag.

Richard.