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About
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Goals
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The fork author's goal is to foster and support active development of PIL through:
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- Continuous integration testing via `GitHub Actions`_
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- Publicized development activity on `GitHub`_
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- Regular releases to the `Python Package Index`_
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.. _GitHub Actions: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/actions
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.. _GitHub: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow
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.. _Python Package Index: https://pypi.org/project/pillow/
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License
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Like PIL, Pillow is `licensed under the open source MIT-CMU License <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-pillow/Pillow/main/LICENSE>`_
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Why a fork?
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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.
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.. _this Image-SIG post: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-August/006480.html
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What about PIL?
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.. note::
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Prior to Pillow 2.0.0, very few image code changes were made. Pillow 2.0.0
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added Python 3 support and includes many bug fixes from many contributors.
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The last PIL release was in 2009 (1.1.7) and `no future releases are expected <https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/1535>`_. In January 2020, `the PyPI moderators exhausted the PEP 541 process for contacting the PIL project owner <https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/1535#issuecomment-570308446>`_ and the `PIL project on PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/PIL>`_ was transferred to the `Pillow team <https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/graphs/contributors>`_. The Pillow team has no plans to update the PIL project on PyPI.
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