[Openicc] openicc Digest, Vol 59, Issue 36: Linux CM ideology .. Linux CM proposal...Camera Input Profiling etc.

[Graeme Gill]

Scott Geffert wrote:
> color space is often thrown around as if is some form of standard. AdobeRGB is no more
> of a standard than ColorMatchRGB,BruceRGB,AppleRGB,DonRGB, etc etc. It is incredibly
> disturbing that supposed "open" efforts freely endorse CLOSED definitions. Any open

Hmm. Then by that definition, no-one should have used the ICC profile format,
until it got put up as an ISO standard. But then if no-one had adopted it,
it probably wouldn't have survived or become popular enough to become an ISO standard.

[And a big problem with ISO is that they work against the adoption of their standards
  by charging for them, instead of making them freely available. Charging money is
  fine if you assume all the users are commercial companies, an assumption that
  is faulty in the software world.]

> printing protocols being worked on MUST use OPEN STANDARDS internally, preferably ISO
> specifications. We must all avoid corporate branded environments at all costs. If the

AdobeRGB space is an open standard - you can download the spec. from Adobe
at no cost, and you are free to implement it.

> word Adobe is on it, it's not "open". Used widely is very different from "Open".
> According to Adobe simply saving an image in AdobeRGB1998 color space requires a
> license agreement.

If you use a copy of the Adobe profile. But you don't have to use Adobe's profile
to use the AdobeRGB colorspace. There are other profiles that implement this
space that are freely distributable.

Graeme Gill.