Hi,
I'm an IT guy with some background in prepress and photography. I have small business customers in the design sector and many of those don't have any kind of colour management in place. Maybe a CMYK profile from the print house if lucky. I'm thinking of getting a ColorMunki Photo for myself and introducing clients to colour management with it. Just a basic display and inkjet calibration where there has been none before. Maybe I sell them their own kit or upgrade my service kit later.
ColorMunki software EULA is quite ambiguous, first it prohibits installation on any computer not yours:
You may install and use the Software on any number of computers owned by You. Additional installations and uses are prohibited unless otherwise authorized by X-Rite in a separate written document issued by X-Rite to You.
Restrictions. In addition to other restrictions set forth in this Agreement, You may not (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;
(a) You may use each Profile only for the specific display, input or output device owned by you, for which the device Profile was created;
But then it says:
(c) You may provide a Profile to a third party for personal use by such third party only on a specific display, input or output device owned by the third party for which the device Profile was created as part of Your commercial profiling service to such third party. It is clarified that You may not provide Profiles to any third party for distribution with such third party’s display, input or output device.
(d) Except as expressly permitted in this Agreement, You may not Yourself or through any other person, do any of the following: (i) sell, license, sublicense, lease, rent, lend, disclose, permit access to, or transfer to any third party, whether for profit or without charge, any Profile; (ii) allow any third party to use a Profile; or (iii) distribute to any third party a Profile in any way or form, whether by networks, electronic bulletin boards, web sites or otherwise. X-Rite may permit certain distribution rights under a separate written distribution agreement.
I understand this to mean that I can't make profiles for friends for free, but I can make them to customers as part of my commercial profiling service, as long as I or the customer don't redistribute it in any form. But I'm not explicitly allowed to install the software on any computer I don't own? Kind of makes it hard to create display profiles for customers.
Many of the sections seem to be the same as in i1Profiler EULA but that one has a longer section on profiling services. What do you guys think?
Full ColorMunki Photo EULA here:
http://www.xrite.com/Documents/Literature/EN/ColorMunkiPhoto_EULA_EN.pdf