Hi, Bob is right. As probably you have figured out, a change in the license is not trivial at all. Aside the required changes in the source files, packages and so, I must also edit the website and descriptions in SourceForge, Fresh meat, etc.
Another issue are the collaborations. lcms has been active since 1998, and in all that time I have received hundreds of contributions. From the simplest "hey, this doesn't work!" to big parts of package, like that one Bob kindly sent. I am very grateful for that, but asking for permission to everyone is, frankly, near impossible. In part, this is why my first message about license change. If anybody has any objection, please don't hesitate to told me. This is specially valid for contributors. I will assume everybody agrees if no message on that got posted. I will wait all next wee, until December 1 to make the 1.12 release. And FYI, that is going to have some new functions among license change and bugfixes. There is black point compensation in postscript CRD, additional information functions, profile ID handling (v4), an abstract virtual profile for controlling bright/contrast/hue/saturation and sequence descriptor tag support for devicelink profiles. Best Regards, Marti Maria The little cms project http://www.littlecms.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Friesenhahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Daniel Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Lcms-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:20 PM Subject: Re: [Lcms-user] need for a new release By the way, my opinion on the LCMS license topic is that the authors of LCMS select the license that the package uses. Marti Maria is the principle author of LCMS. Marti should consult with any other significant contributors to LCMS to obtain their agreement before changing the license since the prior work was submitted under the LGPL license. Without copyright assignment from these significant contributors, by law these contributors retain the copyright to their work. There are significant issues if the licence is altered without agreement from the copyright holders. The UNIXish build environment I contributed for LCMS 1.11 (a significant work) was submitted under the LGPL license, but I hereby assign the rights to this work to Marti Maria to be distrubuted under any appropriate open source license (approved by the Open Source Initiative) he may choose to apply to LCMS. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
