Re: Profile licensing
Re: Profile licensing
- Subject: Re: Profile licensing
- From: Graeme Gill <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:44:37 +1000
email@hidden wrote:
>
>We feel that not allowing the sharing of profiles goes against the sprit of
>
>open ICC profiles.
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>
Bravo, and as it should be!
It's interesting to consider that the restrictions on distribution
of profiles are enforced only by the licensing conditions of the
profiling package, and not by copyright (since the profiling
package can't be an author, and neither can the profiling packages
authors, be authors of a particular profile.)
This may mean that if someone who wasn't a user of the profiling
package (person 2) just happened to get a copy of a profile, and
the user that created the profile (person 1) had declared that
they had released all their copyright claims on that profile,
that person 2 could distribute it without restriction.
(Of course it's an interesting legal question as to whether person 1
is obliged to enforce their copyright claim in order to enforce the
licence they agreed to. Since the licensing agreements I've seen
don't compel the user of the package to assert their copyright
claims over profiles made with the package, I would imagine
it might not).
All such considerations are more reason to use a profiling
package that doesn't impose such ridiculous licensing conditions.
(can you imagine the outcry if Microsoft attempted to control the
distribution of documents created with "Word" ? Some vendors
of compilers have attempted such restrictions over the years. They
tend to be kept honest by the availability of free software, like
gcc).
Graeme Gill.
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