Bug#786946: lintian: false positive: icc-profiles *are* free

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Paul,

On Wed, 27 May 2015, Paul Wise wrote:
> >  "This profile is made available by the International Color
> Consortium, 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." 
> 
> This doesn't appear to give permission to modify the ICC profiles?

As with LPPL (1.3c, Clause 5&6) and many other programs (tex itself), 
if you change it, change the name.  Changes *are* allowed.  

The license statement in icc-profiles does not allow for selling,
AFAIS. That is the main stumbling block, IMHO.

ALl the best

Norbert

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