gpick contains file with potentially non-free license

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The share/gpick/colors.txt file is using a license with this:

 5. These RGB colour formulations may not be used to the detriment of
 Resene Paints Ltd.

This is not compatible with OSD (http://opensource.org/osd) and I'm not sure 
this would qualify as a free license.

Could this possibly be fixed somehow (either by talking to Resene, or by not 
using this data)?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by vincent....@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2013 at 7:03

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If this is a packaging issue, then a simple 'rm share/gpick/colors.txt', 
executed before building, will get rid of that file. End-users will not have 
any problems, apart from reduced number of color names, because Gpick silently 
ignores missing color name files.

Scribus is using Resene palettes with the same license for over a year now, so 
either nobody noticed, or this is a non-issue.

I am not a lawyer, so I am not qualified to decide if their license complies 
with OSD or not.

Original comment by thezbyg on 18 Jan 2013 at 6:28

• Changed state: Reviewed

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I know I can do a simple rm. My worry is more that it probably makes the whole 
tarball not totally free.

Would it be possible to make this data downloadable at runtime instead, for 
instance?

(For scribus: our maintainers did notice, but in the end, I think they just 
dropped the file in the packaging, which is suboptimal)

Original comment by vincent....@gmail.com on 18 Jan 2013 at 6:39

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I could make that file downloadable at runtime, but it would still be optional 
(controlled by build-time parameter), because it just doesn't make any sense to 
add additional dependencies for a download of a single file.

The tarball would still include that file, but if this somehow infects the 
whole tarball, then I could provide a separate tarballs without that 
questionable file.

Original comment by thezbyg on 18 Jan 2013 at 7:09

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Download at runtime option added in revision b7dccff730af.

Original comment by thezbyg on 18 Jan 2013 at 8:04