Citing GIMP and Linking to Us

Citing GIMP or linking to our website from other sites is very much encouraged. Here are a few simple guidelines that should help you.

Linking to our pages¶

If you want to add a link to the official GIMP web site, we recommend that you link to our home page: https://www.gimp.org/.

You can link to other pages such as the download or donation pages but be aware that the deeper you link, the higher the risks that the page could be moved or removed in the future. We try to avoid breaking links, but it is difficult to guarantee. So your best bet for a stable link is the home page, or some of the main pages featured in the navigation menu.

Reusing our images¶

The GIMP project favors artworks under Libre Art licenses, which means most images on news articles or on the main pages can be copied and used freely elsewhere. This includes our logo (Wilber) shown below.

Here are a few usage how-to:

• Even licensed as Libre Art, images are still copyrighted by their respective authors.
  Most images without licensing information (e.g. screenshots in news) are Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License by default on this website.
  It means you must mention the author when cited (“GIMP team” otherwise), the license and any modified version must be released in a compatible license.
• To use our images, we recommend that you copy them to your own server instead of linking directly from this site.
• Some images may not be under Libre Art licenses and cannot be copied without permission. This includes most images in our Legacy tutorials. It may also happen for instance if we were to feature an artist in a news article. We would make a particular mention when such case arises.

Wilber, the GIMP mascot¶

The currently used version of Wilber, the GIMP mascot, has a vector image source (SVG) available by Jakub Steiner, available as Creative Commons by-sa 3.0:

All past versions of Wilber are still available from our gimp-data repository, including the original version created by Tuomas Kuosmanen (tigert).

Citing GIMP in research¶

Researchers sometimes want to cite GIMP in their thesis when the software is used for their research. Some interesting links can be found online on the topic of properly citing software.

As far as our project is concerned, we think that a good citation could include:

• The name: GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)
• The website: https://gimp.org
• The fact it is Community, Free Software
• The main license: GPLv3

For people formatting their paper with LaTeX, this BibTex entry could for instance be pasted into your bibliography so that it gets formatted according to your chosen style (of course, you may want to change the used version if not the latest stable):

  
@software{GIMP,
  author = {{The GIMP Development Team}},
  title = {GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), Version 2.10.38. Community, Free Software (license GPLv3)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://gimp.org/},
  note = {Version 2.10.38, Free Software}
}