On Mon, 01, Jun, 2015 at 12:38:46AM +0900, Norbert Preining spoke thus..
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> Licensing
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> The copyright owner and terms of use of an ICC profile are normally identified
> in the Creator field in the profile header and in the Copyright tag. Where ICC
> is the copyright owner, the following license terms apply:
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> "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."
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> Paul Wise mentioned in his remarks on the lintian bug 786946 that the *new*
> license does not allow for modifications, which I consider an "interesting"
> interpretation, since the second sentence clearly states that
> Altered versions of this profile ...
> which can of course only exist if modifications are allowed.
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> Anyway, at least several OSS projects seem to have no problem with this
> license, thus I ask for a clarification from side of the ftp-masters, as
> requested by Bastien Roucaries in the above mentioned bug report
> against lintian.
Hi Norbert / Lintian maintainers,
As requested, we discussed this license at the ftp-team IRC meeting.
We're satifisfied that the intention is to allow modification and would
therefore ask the lintian maintainers to consider changing the check.
Thanks,
Mark (on behalf of the ftp-team).
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it's black. And the thing about space, your basic space colour is black. So
how are you supposed to see them?"
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