[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 104052] Add LibreColour HLC palette

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104052

--- Comment #16 from Christoph Schäfer <christoph-schaefer@gmx.de> ---
(In reply to Rene Engelhard from comment #14)
> > What's the problem with this licence? We (freeColour) discussed the licensing > options with an 
> > IP lawyer
>
> that is probably the problem.
>
> > and came to the conclusion that, to guarantee the > same outcome on all
> > platforms and the reliability of the physical colour reference in connection
> > with any programme, the ND option is the best.
>
> Your opinion. But it violates the open source Defnition. Remember you are
> contributing to a open source project (or well, Heiko did).
>
> https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
>
> So it's not something we should ship. 
>
> > I've had this discussion in other contexts already, and the major concern was > that using any 
> > of the colours in a document creates  a derivative. This is 
> > *not* true. Using a colour is what is says: use, which is not limited by the
> > licence.
>
> I didn't claim so. Still you can't modify it.
>
> > The ND option only serves to guarantee the correctness of the colour values
> > and the related colour codes. You can compare it to an open standard. The ODF > spec would be 
> > useless if anyone could modify the text 
>
> But a "random" color palette is not a standard. And saying that, by Debians
> standards (DFSG, which the OSD is actually based on) standard texts or RFCs
> are not suitable for Debian main either.

First of all, a colour palette is not code, it's content, so the Open Source
defifinition doesn't apply here.

Second, you can modify the palette. What you can't do is modify it and
distribute it under the same name, pretending it's the original version. The
colours themselves are (s)RGB values, which means they cannot be protected.
Everyone can modify the colour values and distribute a new palette, provided
they remove the colour codes (names) and any relationship with fF / fC and the
physical colour reference.

Third, this is not a "random" palette. It's a colour collection that has been
created with a lot of research and testing behind it.

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