Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Bug #35790 (fop related) and the way of fixing it

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, 19:24:17 LHST, Marek Buras <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hey list!
> 
> Last night I looked at that #35790 bug report. While looking for
> information I found that it has been reported upstream[1] and someone
> mentioned that there is Argyll Color Management System[2] which provides
> tools for managing ICM profiles. It's even better - there is ready to
> use sRGB profile in the source tarball for latest ArgyllCMS release
> which I think is placed in the public domain (whole project is on AGPL3).

If you could double check and make sure there is an explicit licence statement 
- pd or not - that would be excellent. Would be embarassing to make the package 
not free by mistake :)

> Is it ok to just replace non-free ICM with this one and provide package
> with modified sources? 

As long as the profiles are under a compatible licence you should be fine. Note 
that being a repack it'll need the +fsdg suffix and the copyright info updated 
with your changes.
Thanks,
kk

> If it's ok, I can rebuild this package (actually I've done it already,
> but it's still proof of concept).
> 
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52704
> [2] http://www.argyllcms.com/