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To: sam@engr.sgi.com
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cc: adam@onshore.com
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cc: billr@corbis.com
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cc: magick@wizards.dupont.com
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Subject: libtiff fork
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X-Mailer: VM 6.63 under Emacs 20.3.2
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I've finished merging a forked libtiff that was being shipped with
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ImageMagick (that added IPTC newsphoto support) with the last libtiff
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release (tiff-v3.4beta037). I'm going to make this available at
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ftp://ftp.onshore.com/pub/libtiff (as tiff-v3.4beta037-IPTC).
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I'm very reluctant to fork code, and I woud refrain, but for the following:
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1. Repeated mail to you about the patches has gone unanswered.
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2. I keep getting mail from people strugging to get IPTC newphoto support
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to work properly with ImageMagick.
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3. The NT source distibution was already shipping with a forked version.
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In order for the situation to be less confusing, I'm going to make an
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archive of the forked version available.
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I very much would like for there not to be a fork. Are you still
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maintaining libtiff? If not, is there a current maintainer?
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I'm willing to adopt it if there isn't. I'd hate to see such an
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important library fragment. It's extremely likely that onShore
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(http://onshore.com/), will donate web space, bandwidth, and listserv
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services if so.
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M. L. Welles mike@onShore.com
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http://fifth.net/
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