About ===== Goals ----- The fork author's goal is to foster and support active development of PIL through: - Continuous integration testing via `GitHub Actions`_ and `AppVeyor`_ - Publicized development activity on `GitHub`_ - Regular releases to the `Python Package Index`_ .. _GitHub Actions: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/actions .. _AppVeyor: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Python-pillow/pillow .. _GitHub: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow .. _Python Package Index: https://pypi.org/project/pillow/ License ------- Like PIL, Pillow is `licensed under the open source MIT-CMU License `_ Why a fork? ----------- PIL is not setuptools compatible. Please see `this Image-SIG post`_ for a more detailed explanation. Also, PIL's bi-yearly (or greater) release schedule was too infrequent to accommodate the large number and frequency of issues reported. .. _this Image-SIG post: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-August/006480.html What about PIL? --------------- .. note:: 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. The last PIL release was in 2009 (1.1.7) and `no future releases are expected `_. In January 2020, `the PyPI moderators exhausted the PEP 541 process for contacting the PIL project owner `_ and the `PIL project on PyPI `_ was transferred to the `Pillow team `_. The Pillow team has no plans to update the PIL project on PyPI.