--- On Thu, 24/2/11, Tobias Jakobs <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Tobias Jakobs <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [CREATE] PANTONE COLOR MANAGER > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, 24 February, 2011, 14:32 > Hi, > > I've looked into it and: > 1. The download is ~100MB (exe file) > 2. You need an license key to use this Software, it's not > freeware or > open source or something like this. > 3. You are not aloud to use any of the date. From the > EULA: > Restrictions. In addition to other restrictions set > forth in this > Agreement, You may not (a) use, copy, modify or distribute > the > Software (electronically or otherwise) or any copy, > adaptation, > transcription or merged portion thereof except as expressly > authorized > under this Agreement; (b) use the Software for the benefit > of third > parties in a commercial, retail, service bureau or similar > enterprise, > except as permitted under this Agreement; (c) reverse > assemble, > reverse compile or decompile the Software or otherwise > examine the > Software for purposes of reverse engineering; or (d) > distribute any > serial number supplied to you by Pantone, except as a > permanent > transfer of single copy of the Software in its registered, > fully > functional mode to one new owner, as provided in this > Agreement. > > I'm not a lawyer, but I think, we should not use this > data. > > Regards, > Tobias Hmm, I am not advocating software pir*cy, etc, but in some countries, and some parties argue about the validity of EULA's, especially one which appears during the installation "click-through" procedure. I don't follow these arguments much since I use/depend on very few commercial/proprietary software anyway, (and those open-source ones I do, I tend to sign up for the dev and fix bugs/etc from time to time). In one rather interesting situation, the installer of one software becames installable without the key/EULA-click-through if the installer crashes at a particular moment. Well, the story goes, the first time it crashes it happens accidentally because the installer simply doesn't work very well under wine (wine's fault/bug)... now if you manage to install without ever clicking the EULA, is the EULA valid? Well, the EULA says no reverse-engineer, etc, but that's if you agree with that... if you don't agree with that in the first place, and you never click the EULA button (kind of a chicken & egg situation) or actually saw the button at all, does it count? As I said up front, I am *not* advocating any unlawful activities - but an EULA button - if you never click that button or even saw the EULA and yet managed to proceed, is that enforceable? > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 13:25, Olivier BERTEN <[email protected]> > wrote: > > For those interested in Pantone colors, their "color > manager" is finally out. > > http://www.pantone.com/downloads/support/macfiles/PANTONE_COLOR_MANAGER_MAC.zip > > http://www.pantone.com/downloads/support/pcfiles/PANTONE_COLOR_MANAGER_WIN.zip > > > > One interesting thing is it contains sqlite databases > (decks) with a > > lot of informations about the colors : sRGB and Lab > equivalences (of > > course), but also spectral data and ink > formulations... > > > > Olivier > > _______________________________________________ > > CREATE mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > > > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
