History
Versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux were available commercially. Although the Linux version was free of charge in earlier versions, its price was adapted with the 3.5 release.
In mid-September, 2011, the Light Crafts website went offline without notice. It is reported that Fabio Riccardi, founder of Light Crafts and the primary developer of LightZone, is now working as an Apple employee, as evidenced by his LinkedIn profile. The final version from Light Crafts was version 3.9, except for Mac OS X which had a bug-fix version 3.9.2. On-going LightZone support, including updates to let LightZone process Raw files from new camera models, is being provided by the volunteer LightZombie Project.
On 2012-12-22 the LightZombie domain was redirected to the new LightZoneProject.org site, and an announcement was made by Anton Kast (one of the original authors of LightZone) that they had negotiated to release the original LightZone source as free software. This is hosted at https://github.com/AntonKast/LightZone
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