Closed Bug 445468 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Argyllcms might be faster than littlecms for color management

Categories

(Core :: Graphics: ImageLib, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Graphics: ImageLib
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: glennrp+bmo, Assigned: glennrp+bmo)

References

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Details

(Keywords: perf) 

Argyllcms-1.0.1 was released recently.  The author claims that it
is faster than littlecms.  The license is GPLv3 and the license for
some of the included libraries are MIT-style. The entire package is
about 7 MB but we probably only need the included "icc" directory
which is about the same size as lcms, and maybe the "imdi" library
which does some of the speed optimization.
Keywords: perf
Summary: Argyllcms might be faster than littlecms for color managment → Argyllcms might be faster than littlecms for color management
Blocks: 418538
No longer blocks: 444659
Anyone attempting to test this, please do not download the separate
"icclib" from www.argyllcms.com .  It is out of date.  Get the
entire Argyllcms-1.0.1 source code instead and then extract the icc
directory from it.
I was mistaken about the imdi library licensing.  It is GPLv3 not MIT.
GPLv3 won't work with tri-licensing. We'll keep working on optimizing lcms.

Closing as wontfix.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Right.  Verifying wontfix.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
I discussed this with the author of Argyllcms and he agrees that the licensing is incompatible.  He is unwilling to relicense his software to make it compatible.
Testing/evaluation is still possible.  Simply down-license a fork of Mozilla to GPL and then install argyllcms in the fork.
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