On 27.07.2007 17:04:41 Yoav Shapira wrote: > Hey, > > On 7/27/07, Carsten Ziegeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > together with Charles M. Chen I came up with a proposal to move the > > great open source java image library, Sanselan, to Apache. > > > > You'll find all the details here: > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SanselanProposal > > > > Now, currently we are looking for interested parties, especially for > > mentors and a sponsoring project, perhaps commons would be a good place > > for sanselan? > > +1. I like the effort in general, and I'd be willing to help if you > need a mentor.
BTW, I could also help as mentor but not before October 2007. I also like the effort, but my itch here isn't that big. > As for what existing Apache project Sanselan would go into, I'm not > sure. Commons is an option, since Sanselan is a component to be used > by other applications, not its own stand-alone thing, and image > processing is a common requirement. I agree. Commons is probably the best place. > The questions about Java ImageIO and/or FOP and/or Batik interactions > are interesting, but not critical IMHO. We don't limit ourselves to > only one project in one area. It's nice to chat and coordinate where > possible, but neither Sanselan nor other projects need to kill > themselves to comply with someone else's API. Agreed. I hope my note didn't suggest anything else. I mean FOP could easily work against the Sanselan API instead of ImageIO but generally the usefulness of Sanselan would increase a lot with an ImageIO adapter. A thing I forgot in my first message: The Sanselan page indicates that GIF is supported as well as TIFF with LZW compression. It should be noted that the LZW algorithm [1] has patent issues although in most countries (if not all) the patent has by now expired. If this functionality should be kept I suggest to involve the legal affairs committee. Personally, I'd remove the functionality just out of principle. The German WikiPedia entry [2] mentions that many experts think that decoding only doesn't fall under the patent. Maybe just the encoding capability should be removed. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZW [2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel-Ziv-Welch-Algorithmus Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
