On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 05:23:10PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > fwiw, i suppose one could argue that the images in the user attributes > (the attached keys) themselves (regardless of embedded color profile) > are under some form of copyright protection that could make them not > dfsg-free unless they have an appropriately-stated license. > > See for example: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Exif#ExifTool_how-to > > This seems a bit silly, but hey, copyright law might actually turn out > to be silly sometimes. > > I see a few possible options: > > 0) stop distributing User Attributes in debian-keyring entirely (this > would avoid dealing with any questions about embedded color profiles > or jpeg copyright) ... > (0) is certainly the easiest approach for the maintainers of > debian-keyring.
I think for the moment this is the right approach to take; otherwise we need to get into a situation of writing tools to check that every UAT we see has a DSFG license attached to it. I've updated the keyring scripts to use the no-export-attributes export option to strip these, and will run the clean scripts over the existing keyring before the next keyring release. If at some point we come up with a clean automated way to allow the photo ids to be included it will be easy enough to re-import them. J. -- Pollito says: There no cloud, just other people computers.
