Remove ICC profiles

[DavidPrevot]

While checking for copyrighted ICC profiles, under non free license,
the following file has been spotted, and the ICC profile has been
removed:

  exiftool -icc_profile"-<=" src/skin/menu-other-origins.png

The image has been checked identical to its source, and in addition,
the file is about 3 kB smaller without these useless binary data.

The binary ICC profile itself is “Copyright (c) 1998 Hewlett-Packard
Company” as one can see using iccdump once extracted with, e.g.:

  exiftool -icc_profile -b -w icc src/skin/menu-other-origins.png

P.-S.: previously submitted as RequestPolicy/requestpolicy#431 and forwarded by a third party as #431 (I didn’t notice it until now).

[myrdd]

Hi @DavidPrevot! Do I understand correctly that the ICC profile can be removed because the image is displayed on monitors only and not printed? (http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-imaging-color-management.html)

[DavidPrevot]

Hi,

Le 13/12/2014 09:32, Martin Kimmerle a écrit :

Do I understand correctly that this can be removed because the image is displayed on monitors only and not printed?

Well, it’s an old but standard version of sRGB, so even printing won’t
actually change the image. The root issue is the (sourceless) binary ICC
profile is copyrighted, by HP and not compliant with the license used to
distribute requestpolicy (GPL-3+).

Some more background on the issue:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00339.html

Regards

David

[myrdd]

Alright @DavidPrevot thanks for the info – I'll merge this.