[Image-SIG] python app using PIL - GPL question

Donn donn.ingle at gmail.com
Wed Aug 30 16:18:15 CEST 2006


> PIL uses the old-style Python license, which is considered to be GPL
> compatible by the FSF (look for "License of Python 1.6a2 and earlier
> versions" in their list), so mixing things shuold be perfectly okay.
Thanks for the info. That's good news.

> If you build stuff on top of PIL that would be useful to other PIL users,
> outside your application (e.g. file format drivers, new image processing
> algorithms, etc.), it's of course nice to license those parts under a
> non-GPL license, but that's up to you.
Okay. I am only doing an :
import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw
So, I should be clear.

Donn.


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