Very cool news indeed. That oughta shut up a few anti-Gimp trolls! :-)

Le 4 Novembre 2003 22:11, Leon Brooks a �crit :
> WRT recent discussions about PhotoShop and Mandrake:
>
>     http://www.linuxgraphic.org/dcforum/DCForumID1/75.html
>
> Sven Neuman says (apparently either on 05 Sep 2001 or 09 May 2001
> depending on how you interpret the date "05-09-01"):
>
>     Yes, the Gimp-2.0 core will have support for multiple color
>     spaces and CMYK will most probably be one of the color spaces
>     supported by default. Of course color management is partly
>     protected by patents. While I must admit that I do not believe
>     in intellectual property at all and living in Europe makes it
>     easy to ignore those software patents, we will probably have
>     to respect some of those patent issues. On the other hand,
>     only professional users need professional color management
>     systems like Pantone, so our goal is to provide the
>     architecture for color management and to provide at least one
>     free implementation. This will give color management to
>     everyone and will allow third-party vendors to offer color
>     management modules which are based on systems that need to be
>     licensed. Professional Gimp users will then have a chance to
>     spend their money on licensing fees in order to get the
>     color-management systems with well-known names on it as their
>     customers demand.
>
> Cheers; Leon

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