Adobe RGB and Adobe sRGB are surely protected under trademark law and not copyright.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Leonard Rosenthol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hub - I recall that discussion and I know that it was passed on to the > powers that be. I haven't looked at the updated language recently - have > you? > > As far as the "Adobe RGB" profile available on that web site - it is indeed > in violation of our copyrights for that name (if nothing else) and we are > taking the appropriate steps. > > ON THE OTHER HAND - I can say that Adobe has been working with the ISO to > publish the technical details of the Adobe RGB profile so that "clones" can > be correctly and legally produced. I expect that standard to be published > sometime this year. > > Leonard Rosenthol > Adobe Systems > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Hubert Figuiere <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:22 -0800, Jon Phillips wrote: >> > Good, I've been fighting this one online recently. Factual data is not >> > copyrightable. >> > >> > Releasing this type of information into the public domain is the right >> > move. It will spread further too IMO. >> >> For now as it stand, the license does not even allow to freely >> redistribute it as one is not allowed to even *repackage* (so much for >> distro makers). >> >> Back then on the open-icc mailing list, when they where announced, I >> criticized this and the dude from Adobe promised to look into it. That >> was in 2005. >> >> >> Hub >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CREATE mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ San Francisco + Beijing GLOBAL +1.415.830.3884 - USA 510.499.0894 - CHINA 86.1.360.282.8624 IM/skype: kidproto - Jabber/gtalk: [email protected] http://rejon.org/bio - http://rejon.org/bio/cv - http://rejon.org/projects _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
