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<h1>About Pillow<a class="headerlink" href="#about-pillow" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>Goals<a class="headerlink" href="#goals" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The fork authors’ goal is to foster active development of PIL through:</p>
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<li>Continuous integration testing via <a class="reference external" href="https://travis-ci.org/python-pillow/Pillow">Travis CI</a></li>
<li>Publicized development activity on <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow">GitHub</a></li>
<li>Regular releases to the <a class="reference external" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow">Python Package Index</a></li>
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<h2>License<a class="headerlink" href="#license" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>like PIL itself, Pillow is licensed under the MIT-like <cite>PIL Software License <http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/license.htm></cite>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>Software License
The Python Imaging Library (PIL) is
Copyright © 1997-2011 by Secret Labs AB
Copyright © 1995-2011 by Fredrik Lundh
By obtaining, using, and/or copying this software and/or its associated documentation, you agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with the following terms and conditions:
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its associated documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies, and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of Secret Labs AB or the author not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission.
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<h2>Why a fork?<a class="headerlink" href="#why-a-fork" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>PIL is not setuptools compatible. Please see <a class="reference external" href="https://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-August/006480.html">this Image-SIG post</a> for a more
detailed explanation. Also, PIL’s current bi-yearly (or greater) release
schedule is too infrequent to accommodate the large number and frequency of
issues reported.</p>
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<h2>What about PIL?<a class="headerlink" href="#what-about-pil" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">Prior to Pillow 2.0.0, very few image code changes were made. Pillow 2.0.0
added Python 3 support and includes many bug fixes from many contributors.</p>
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<p>As more time passes since the last PIL release, the likelihood of a new PIL
release decreases. However, we’ve yet to hear an official “PIL is dead”
announcement. So if you still want to support PIL, please
<a class="reference external" href="https://bitbucket.org/effbot/pil-2009-raclette/issues">report issues here first</a>, then
<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues">open the corresponding Pillow tickets here</a>.</p>
<p>Please provide a link to the PIL ticket so we can track the issue(s) upstream.</p>
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