Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
- Subject: Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
- From: Graeme Gill <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:58:09 +1000
Michael Papet wrote:
You don't need a license from Adobe to implement
software reading and writing the TIFF format.
You may need a license for use of existing TIFF
libraries though libraries with minimal licensing
requirements are also available.
"minimal licensing requirements"?
#2 Those minimal licensing requirements are arbitrary
and capricious such that they are used to discourage
interoperability, discourage competition, and raise
costs.
eh ? Libtiff is free to use in both senses, and incorporates
support for nearly all elements of the TIFF standard (99.9% of
what people use, and then some). The only things not supported
are those via extended standards such as JPEG's JBIG, and that's
a software patent problem that's out of anyone's control (including
Adobe). The group of developers that support LibTIFF seem
to have a cordial relationship with the standard holder, Adobe.
See <http://remotesensing.org/libtiff/>
There's actually some interesting stuff going on in TIFF at
the moment, with parties other than Adobe attempting to
extend it to support large files (BIGTiff).
The presence of widely used independent implementations
of the TIFF standard make for a momentum that even
the standard holder cannot easily ignore.
I've not looked into it in detail, but the idea of
an open, flexible, vendor neutral RAW format seems like
a good one, and nothing mentioned in this forum indicates
that Adobe have been other than pragmatic about proposing
and furthering this idea (much like OpenEXR from Pixar in
the movie industry).
Graeme Gill.
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