https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104052
--- Comment #50 from Christoph Schäfer <christoph-schaefer@gmx.de> ---
(In reply to jonathon from comment #49)
Issue # 1: AFAIK, the degree to which ND permeates the work-product has not
been tested in court. Just because the creator intends for No-Derivatives to
be limited to the specific colours in this specific colour swatch in this
specific file format is no guarantee that a court will rule that way.
Distribute it within LibO, and The Document Foundation, EV is at risk of
being on the wrong side of a very expensive lawsuit.
Really? How so? freieFarbe e.V. is a non-profit organisation, and it would lose
this status immediately if it started lawsuits over promoting open standards.
Distribute it as a third party extension, and let users decide if the
benefits outweigh the legal risks.
There are no legal risks. HLC is just a colour model.
Issue # 2: Subsets and supersets. By using an ND license, this group of
colours is effectively excluded from being used as the basis for a colour
scheme --- any colour scheme. It doesn't matter if the resulting palette is
corporate branding, or a party theme.
FWIW, I don't see the FreeColour as being the instigator of the lawsuits,
but rather, the estate and heirs of FreeColour. Neighbouring rights, greedy
heirs, sleazy lawyers, and targets with pockets deep enough to pay, but not
quite deep enough to rebuff paying the danegeld.
You apparently have no clue.
I am not a lawyer.
That's quite obvious.
I apologise if this sounds condescending, but the old maxim "si tacuisses,
philosophus manisses" seems to be appropriate here.
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