[tex-live] ICC profiles for PDF/A compliance

[Peter Selinger]

Hi Ross and Norbert,

yes. Although my recollection is as I stated, I do not have any
evidence to corroborate it. So I agree with you that the best thing to
do is to replace it with another, free profile (and hopefully to save
some screen shots proving what the license actually is).

-- Peter

Ross Moore wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I’d meant to send this earlier, but got distracted with something else
> (also PDF related). Some of it is redundant after Norbert’s messages,
> but here it is anyway.  :-)
> 
> On 7 Sep 2018, at 10:27 am, Peter Selinger <selinger at mathstat.dal.ca<mailto:selinger at mathstat.dal.ca>> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ross,
> 
> when I added the files sRGB_IEC61966-2-1_black_scaled.icc and
> coated_FOGRA39L_argl.icc to the pdfx package in 2015, they came with
> the following respective licenses, which are included in the package
> (in the file ICC_LICENSE.txt):
> 
> Yes, I was going to reply the same way …
> 
>   … until I read the email discussion thread on the page that Norbert indicated.
> viz.
>    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786946<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Mg4ICD1vRkCB6ZBLt85J5p?domain=bugs.debian.org>
> 
> (I hope my email system doesn’t munge this for you, by redirecting
> via a spam-management system, called  mimecast .
> Clicking the link may not work for you, so you have to copy/paste
> the link into the browser’s location bar.)
> 
> 
> In 2015, a bug was filed, saying these profiles are non-free.
> This was countered, and the bug retracted.
> But in 2017, after a clarification was requested (2 years earlier!)
> it was finally decided that, for Debian, the licence was non-free!!!
> 
> This is the first I’ve heard of this decision, which I find very hard to understand.
> 
> I don't know on what basis someone now claims to have determined that
> sRGB_IEC61966-2-1_black_scaled.icc is "not free". The license above is
> the one that came with the file when I downloaded it from the
> International Color Consortium's website, and it is explicitly
> included in the package so the Debian developer should have seen
> it. Such licenses are not revocable, so the file is free.
> 
> Just guessing, but maybe one may quibble about how the file copy is
> done, either onto disk or as it gets included into a PDF file.
> 
> In any case, while Debian regards it as non-free, it poisons TeXLive for them.
> That’s certainly a bad thing, whether we agree with the reason or not.
> Fixing that should not be too hard.
> 
> There are a few bugs with the current  pdfx.sty  anyway, which have emerged
> recently. So I’ll have to produce a new version.
> 
> Besides, I have some great new features, not yet released:
> 
>   1.  support for  dvips/GhostScript
>   2.  XMP template for  PDF/A & PDF/UA  simultaneously
>   3.  adjust how accents are placed, so that  Copy/Paste  gets
>        the order correct for Unicode combining accents.
> 
> plus minor bug fixes.
> 
> 
> 
> -- Peter
> 
> > Alternatively, there is this site:
> >
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/openicc/files/OpenICC-Profiles/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5iQkCL7Eg9fPo2PDCGmeyK?domain=sourceforge.net>
> >
> > Worth investigating?
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ross
> 
>