ANN: FreeImagePy 1.2.2

[Uwe Grauer]

Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote:
>> Knowing some details about PIL and as good as no details about
>> FreeImage, I would like in this context to become enlightened by the
>> answer to the question, when does it make sense to use FreeImage instead
>> of PIL?
>>  From what I know up to now I can't see any use for FreeImage :-( .
> 
> both freeimagepy and freeimage are released under the GPL, PIL is not.
> 
> --
> Andrew Gwozdziewycz <apgwoz at gmail.com>
> http://ihadagreatview.org
> http://plasticandroid.org

Did you read the PIL licence?
Seems to be a more free licence than GPL.

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Uwe