[Moving forward] copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-22 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 10/05/2014 09:23, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : I believe it violates DFSG to ship e.g. JFIF or GIF files which contains copyright-protected but not freely licensed ICC profiles. Thanks for raising the issue. Since I (co)maintain a few web related packages, I started submitting issues

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 12 May 2014, James Cloos wrote: Note that you cannot just strip colour profiles from image containers. Doing so changes the output. You'd have to replace the profile with a Free equivilent. Or, if no free equivilent is available, edit the image to match a Free profile. Can you

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-13 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 13/05/2014 05:34, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : On Mon, 12 May 2014, James Cloos wrote: Note that you cannot just strip colour profiles from image containers. Doing so changes the output. You'd have to replace the profile with a Free equivilent. Or, if no free equivilent is

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting David Prévot (2014-05-13 12:00:40) Le 13/05/2014 05:34, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : Also, where is a Free profile? ISTR that PDF/{A,X} creation requires a profile too; I’ve used one that came as example somewhere currently. The icc-profiles-free package is in main. ghostscript also

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-12 Thread James Cloos
JS == Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: JS I believe it does not violate DFSG to ship e.g. JFIF or GIF files JS which was upstream distributed with copyright-protected but not JS freely licensed ICC profiles, if repackaged to strip those ICC JS profiles. Note that you cannot just strip

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-12 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Le 12 mai 2014 17:51, James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com a écrit : JS == Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: JS I believe it does not violate DFSG to ship e.g. JFIF or GIF files JS which was upstream distributed with copyright-protected but not JS freely licensed ICC profiles, if repackaged

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-12 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Sun, 11 May 2014 19:04:07 -0400, David Prévot wrote: Q. Are profiles copyrighted? A. ICC has no formal position on the use of profiles. It is really up to the software vendor. However, since the software vendor effectively holds copyright on the profile (which is specified in a tag) the

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting James Cloos (2014-05-12 17:48:53) JS == Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: JS I believe it does not violate DFSG to ship e.g. JFIF or GIF files JS which was upstream distributed with copyright-protected but not JS freely licensed ICC profiles, if repackaged to strip those ICC

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-11 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org wrote: Hi, Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. Note that lintian detect these naked (not embeded) profile by default. Since it's something that not

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-11 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org wrote: Hi, Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. Note that

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-11 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le samedi 10 mai 2014 à 13:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : This sounds like a ludicrous overreach of copyright. Isn't an ICC descriptive, rather than creative? According to the International Color Consortium, profiles provide content

copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-10 Thread Jérémy Lal
Hi, Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. Since it's something that not many people seems to be aware of, maybe it might be useful to have a lintian check for that. That command [1] shows positives on my /usr/share/

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 11:10 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: Hi, Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. [...] This sounds like a ludicrous overreach of copyright. Isn't an ICC descriptive, rather than creative? And the

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-10 Thread Jérémy Lal
Le samedi 10 mai 2014 à 13:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 11:10 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: Hi, Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. [...] This sounds like a ludicrous overreach of

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ben Hutchings (2014-05-10 14:37:35) On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 11:10 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. [...] This sounds like a ludicrous overreach of copyright. Isn't an ICC

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 02:55:09PM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: Le samedi 10 mai 2014 à 13:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 11:10 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: Hi, Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without