PMP 5 Licensing
PMP 5 Licensing
- Subject: PMP 5 Licensing
- From: "Cris Daniels" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:38:43 -0400
I clipped this from Ethan Hansen on one of his posts on another board.
"WIth ProfileMaker 5, GretagMacbeth joins the ranks of vendors with bizzare
license agreements. Previous versions of their allowed a company to make
profiles for a printer or scanner they owned and allow customers to use the
profiles. (You may make these profiles available to third parties only in
circumstances in which the third party will be optimizing images that have
been created on, or will be output on, Your Device...) It was also legal to
"to create a profile, as part of Your providing a profiling service, for a
specific input or output device owned by a third party for use by that third
party on such device." That allowed profiling services such as Chromix,
Imaging Revue, or our company - Dry Creek Photo - to use PMP to build
profiles for photographers, studios, labs, and others. In our case, the
measurements are pre-processed and the profiles further processed after the
fact, but PMP is in the middle.
ProfileMaker 5 changes the license. Any profiles created with version 5 can
not be sold, lent, licensed, or leased to anyone other than the owner of the
software. So much for labs that want to provide their customers with
profiles to use. This will certainly give the many labs and service bureaus
that are reluctant to provide their profiles further ammunition. "Just send
us sRGB or SWOP V2, we'll do the rest." And charge you for the reprints and
editing...
Matters do, however, get worse. In section 1.c.iv of the ProfileMaker 5
license, GMB asserts its copyright over "the ICC-Profiles created by You."
As such, it appears illegal to build a profile for a press and embed the
profile in any images sent out for printing. A stringent reading of the
license implies that PMP 5 profiles may only be used for printers that you
(or is that You?) personally run. As with all too much in the world of color
management, a step forward is met with a hard shove backwards.
Thanks Gretag, guess I'll be running 4.1.5 and pass on the $1000 upgrade.
What's next? Gretag owns my prints because their output profile was used in
my workflow? Thanks to Ethan for this info, this is good information to
know.
Cris Daniels
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