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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