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--- Comment #21 from Christoph Schäfer <christoph-schaefer@gmx.de> ---
(In reply to Rene Engelhard from comment #17)
First of all, a colour palette is not code, it's content, so the Open Source
defifinition doesn't apply here.

It's bits and bytes thus it's software thus it has to fullfill the DFSG
(read: OSD). That is Debians position. Stuff like this is non-free and would
be needed to remove. a nuisance, so I am and will continue fighting against
inclusion of this as long as it's non-free.

So a JPEG or PNG file is software? That's news to me.

As for Debian's position, I frankly don't care about it. They're "freedom"
fundamentalists and remind me of people who insist on talking loudly during a
burial ceremony or a piano concerto and rely on their right to free speach.


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.

It is. It is a palette done by some people (with or without research is not
relevant here) provided by some company. Not a Standard. You started this,
not me...

Please pay attention and also follow the mailing list discussion. This palette
is not provided by a company (although technically it is). The palette is being
offered by a non-profit organisation, freieFarbe e.V. The only reason the
company is listed as a copyright holder is that the chairman of the non-profit
org uses the infrastructure of his former company, which as of now exists only
on paper, for the purpose of the non-profit organisation. If it helps, we can
change the copyright notice to "freieFarbe e.V.".

Moreover, CIE LAB *is* an international standard. The original fans and
palettes use CIE LAB and its user-friendly equivalent CIE HLC. The SOC palette
for CIE HLC is the RGB version using an sRGB profile to convert CIE LAB to RGB. 

Finally, let me ask you a question: Would it be fine with you if a competitor
of LO (MS, Corel, whoever) crippled this magnificent software and slapped the
LO logo on it, just to damage its reputation? I don't think so, and there are
rules regarding the use of the LO logo. Does that make LO non-free?

Likewise, the *only* reason we chose the ND option for this palette was to
prevent mean-spirited users and / or competitors from undermining the
reliability of the palette in real-world workflows.

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