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2008.10.06 20:45 "Re: [SPAM] Re: [Tiff] Compression code 34719 (MDI Tiffs)", by Brad Hards
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 03:31:10 am Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Edward Lam wrote: > > Brad Hards wrote: > >> LGPL license. Patches / bug reports appreciated. > > > > Before this gets too far, does the libtiff project accept LGPL code? > > AFAICT, libtiff seems to use a BSD-style license. > > While it is likely ok for a contributed libtiff utility, it would not > be suitable for inclusion in libtiff itself. I don't think anything that depended on both the QtCore and QtGui libraries (which are GPL unless you have a commercial license) is going into libtiff. While I still need to actually finish the base library and then work with Martin to get the codec done, the expectation is that this would be some kind of add-in that you might provide if you particularly cared about MDI. Is there a way to register additional codecs into libtiff at runtime? Brad