Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting David Prévot (2014-05-13 12:00:40) > Le 13/05/2014 05:34, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : >> Also, where is a Free profile? ISTR that PDF/{A,X} creation requires >> a profile too; I’ve used one that came as example somewhere >> currently. > > The icc-profiles-free package is in main. ghostscr

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-13 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 13/05/2014 05:34, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > On Mon, 12 May 2014, James Cloos wrote: > >> Note that you cannot just strip colour profiles from image containers. >> >> Doing so changes the output. >> >> You'd have to replace the profile with a Free equivilent. Or, if no >> free equivilent

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 12 May 2014, James Cloos wrote: > Note that you cannot just strip colour profiles from image containers. > > Doing so changes the output. > > You'd have to replace the profile with a Free equivilent. Or, if no > free equivilent is available, edit the image to match a Free profile. Can yo

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting James Cloos (2014-05-12 17:48:53) > > "JS" == Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > JS> I believe it does not violate DFSG to ship e.g. JFIF or GIF files > JS> which was upstream distributed with copyright-protected but not > JS> freely licensed ICC profiles, if repackaged to strip those ICC >

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-12 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Sun, 11 May 2014 19:04:07 -0400, David Prévot wrote: > Q. Are profiles copyrighted? > > A. ICC has no formal position on the use of profiles. It is really up to > the software vendor. However, since the software vendor effectively > holds copyright on the profile (which is specified in a tag) t

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-12 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Le 12 mai 2014 17:51, "James Cloos" a écrit : > > > "JS" == Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > JS> I believe it does not violate DFSG to ship e.g. JFIF or GIF files > JS> which was upstream distributed with copyright-protected but not > JS> freely licensed ICC profiles, if repackaged to strip those

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-12 Thread James Cloos
> "JS" == Jonas Smedegaard writes: JS> I believe it does not violate DFSG to ship e.g. JFIF or GIF files JS> which was upstream distributed with copyright-protected but not JS> freely licensed ICC profiles, if repackaged to strip those ICC JS> profiles. Note that you cannot just strip colour

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-11 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, >> Le samedi 10 mai 2014 à 13:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : >>> This sounds like a ludicrous overreach of copyright. Isn't an ICC >>> descriptive, rather than creative? According to the International Color Consortium, profiles provide con

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-11 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Jérémy Lal wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] >> can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. > > Note that lintian detect these naked (not embede

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-11 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Hi, > > Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] > can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. Note that lintian detect these naked (not embeded) profile by default. > Since it's something that not many people

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 02:55:09PM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Le samedi 10 mai 2014 à 13:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 11:10 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] > > > can embed a copyrighted ICC prof

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ben Hutchings (2014-05-10 14:37:35) > On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 11:10 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: >> Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] can >> embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. > [...] > > This sounds like a ludicrous overreach of copyright. Isn't an I

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-10 Thread Jérémy Lal
Le samedi 10 mai 2014 à 13:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 11:10 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] > > can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. > [...] > > This sounds like a ludicrous ove

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 11:10 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Hi, > > Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] > can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. [...] This sounds like a ludicrous overreach of copyright. Isn't an ICC descriptive, rather than creative? And th