Please, strip away copyrighted ICC profiles

[taffit]

While searching for embedded non-free ICC profiles:

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	find . -regextype posix-extended -iregex '.*\.(jpg|png)' \
		-exec sh -c 'identify -verbose "$0" \
		| grep -i copyright && echo "$0"' {} \;

The following four files showed up:

flash16.png, flash32.png, somelight16.png and somelight32.png, inside skin/classic/noscript from chrome/noscript.jar.

The proposed alternative is to simply remove the embedded non-free and anyway useless ICC profiles:

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	exiftool -icc_profile"-<=" $files

It removes the 3144 B binary ICC profile from each file, making them a lot smaller in the process.

Thanks in advance for considering.

[Giorgio Maone]

Done, thanks.

[boardhead]

While searching for embedded non-free ICC profiles:

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	exiftool -icc_profile"-<=" $files

The correct exiftool command is:

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exiftool -icc_profile= $files

The "-<=" operator is for conditionally deleting a tag if it matches the value in a specified file. I'm not sure why your command even worked with this operator.

- Phil

[Giorgio Maone]

The "-<=" operator is for conditionally deleting a tag if it matches the value in a specified file. I'm not sure why your command even worked with this operator.

It apparently worked for me, i.e. it stipped about 3KB away from those files while keeping them usable (I didn't check what data went away exactly, though).