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XMP and open source article on Linux.com
Nathan Willis writes about XMP making inroads in open source imaging software at Linux.com. Nice closing:
Take Creative Commons, for example, which has already embraced XMP, even providing custom XMP templates with which Photoshop users can add Creative Commons licensing information. The size of the collective CC-licensed works on the Internet far outscales any personal or corporate collection; who better to leverage that collection than the free software community?