On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Jan-Peter Homann wrote:
Even for commercial companies, which wish to sponsor littleCMS or Marti, it
is really hard to transfer money, because, there is no infrastructure for it.
From my view, littleCMS is shortly before becoming the "apache" of
cross-plattform ICC-based colormanagement.
I hope not! The projects you mentioned are ponderous political
nightmares designed to support large infrastructures. From what I
see, Little CMS is still Marti's project and it should stay that way.
It should operate as he sees fit.
There is *plenty* of infrastructure available to send money to Marti.
An umbrella organization (which takes ownership away from the
software's original author in exchange for vauge legal protections) is
not required. The fact of the matter is that Marti has not requested
contributions from Little CMS users. Requesting contributions could
be as simple as setting up payment via Paypal and adding a "Contribute
to Little CMS" link on the web site, or using the existing
contribution mechanism offered via SourceForge.
Marti is a master of his craft and can pull in lots of income on a
consulting basis if he chooses to. Perhaps he does so already.
Marti's private finances are not our concern.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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