Re: Epson 1280/ MIS Perpetual Color Ink

[Robert L Krawitz <rlk@alum.mit.edu>]

   From: CDTobie@aol.com
   Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:23:49 EDT

   The licensing rights to control distribution of the software and
   derivatives thereof. If you open most any profile, you will find a
   tag bearing a copyright notification.

I guess I would wonder on what basis they claim copyright on data
generated by the program.  That would seem equivalent to a compiler
vendor claiming copyright on the assembly language output of a
compiler, which generally seems nonsensical (I haven't even heard of
Microsoft trying to do that).

I suppose that they might embed other copyrighted material in the
profile.  For example, parsers generated by Bison (the GNU equivalent
of yacc, a common UNIX tool for generating parsers) do embed some
other code verbatim (bison.simple and/or bison.hairy), and *that* part
of the code is covered by the GPL, although the FSF grants a special
exception for that file.  However, if you were to elide that code from
the generated parser, there would be no issue.  Is it possible to
separate the (presumably) fixed, copyrighted part of the profile from
the rest of the data, and replace it with something else?

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