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
