Digital BW, The Print

Roy Harrington wrote:
> The way I read their agreement is that "generic profiles" are the ones restricted
> unless you've paid for a special more expensive license.
> 
> Custom profiles by a custom profile service are perfectly fine -- this gives
> people an incentive to buy the software and sell a profiling service. 
> 
> The other detail is that it's the profile made with their software that is copyrighted.
> The measurements are not copyrighted -- they can't copyright the density value
> on your paper!  So there's no issue with buying their hardware and feeding the
> data into a different software package.   So making icc profiles some other way
> is just fine.
> 
> I'm no legal expert but that's the way I interpret it.
> 
> Roy

The SpectroCam comes with several tools including one for 
reading different targets. There's no restriction on 
distributing the measurements as far as I can see.

For the Eye 1 and X-rite's Colorport it is different I think. 
A kind of general license restriction added to (the free) 
Colorport while it can't do much more than the Spectrocam 
software. Based on what I read there I wouldn't go to court 
and say that I only gathered the density values and 
distributed them.

I'm no legal expert either and I share your view that the 
measurements can't be copyrighted.

Ernst

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           Ernst Dinkla


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