Recently I ran across the statement that some? all? of the old Hewlett Packard sRGB profiles are encumbered by a license that might or does limit their use to certain platforms (eg Windows) and/or certain hardware and/or other assorted other possible limitations.
It turns out that such a profile is embedded in a printer test image that I downloaded from the internet. The command "exiftool -S -ProfileVersion -ProfileDateTime -ProfileCopyright file-name" outputs the following information about this profile: ProfileVersion: 2.1.0 ProfileDateTime: 1998:02:09 06:49:00 ProfileCopyright: Copyright (c) 1998 Hewlett-Packard Company I checked other sRGB profiles and found several almost identical sRGB profiles with this exact information in the profile, including the Adobe sRGB profile, formerly (but no longer, which seems coincidentally odd) available from the Adobe website. Apparently there was a license that originally accompanied the problem profile(s), that gave specific limitations on the use of the profiles. Has anyone on this list heard of this issue? If so, do you have a copy of the license? If so, does the license explain what "use" actually means? Does downloading and/or opening, modifying, saving to disk, etc constitute "use"? Can this profile be used at all in/on/with Linux and/or open source software? If there are such license-encumbered sRGB profiles, is there a problem with *all* near-identical sRGB profile with the profile version of 2.1.0 and the profile date time of 1998:02:09 06:49:00? Or just certain ones that can be identified by something other than the profile version, date time, and copyright? Thanks in advance, Elle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list Lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
