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class="section" id="goals"> <h2>Goals<a class="headerlink" href="#goals" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>The fork author’s goal is to foster and support active development of PIL through:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>Continuous integration testing via <a class="reference external" href="https://travis-ci.org/python-pillow/Pillow">Travis CI</a> and <a class="reference external" href="https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Python-pillow/pillow">AppVeyor</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.org/project/Pillow/">Python Package Index</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" id="license"> <h2>License<a class="headerlink" href="#license" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>Like PIL, Pillow is <a class="reference external" href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-pillow/Pillow/master/LICENSE">licensed under the open source PIL Software License</a></p> </div> <div class="section" id="why-a-fork"> <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> </div> <div class="section" id="what-about-pil"> <h2>What about PIL?<a class="headerlink" href="#what-about-pil" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <div class="admonition note"> <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> </div> <p>As more time passes since the last PIL release (1.1.7 in 2009), the likelihood of a new PIL release decreases. However, we’ve yet to hear an official “PIL is dead” announcement. 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