On 11/23/2012 09:24 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: > In the shared-color-profiles project upstream we take some trivial > well-known data e.g. > "2.2 D65 0.6400 0.3300 0.297361 0.2100 0.7100 0.627355 0.1500 0.0600 > 0.075285" and then create a binary ICC profile with some added > metadata. The binary file can then be embedded into jpeg documents or > used standalone in programs like Krita and GIMP. > > The added metadata are things like a profile description (which is > optionally translated) and what space it's supposed to represent e.g. > sRGB. > > The colorspace co-ordinates are in the public domain, and so I'm > wondering what copyright and licence to choose for the resulting > binary blob. > > The binary file is actually created on koji/brew and so I'm not sure > if Public Domain is the right thing to use as I'm aware that some > countries can't do this. Is CC0 a safer/saner choice? > > Logically the profile copyright string should be "No copyright" and > the licence "Public Domain" to match the source but treating law > logically isn't always a good idea. :) > > Can anyone advise what to put in the profile header. Thanks. I think if you're worried about regions where Public Domain is not a valid option (and thus, where parts (or all) of your copyright in the work would still be applicable), going explicitly with CC-0 is a reasonably good solution. As always, I'm not a lawyer, so that isn't legal advice. ~tom == Fedora Project _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
