Re: [GM-apis] Final comments on usurping ImageMagick utility names

I am glad that this is finally clarified.  To once again make things
perfectly clear, GraphicsMagick will not use ImageMagick utility names
by default.  Installation of ImageMagick utility names is a
compile-time configuration option which is intended to be enabled by
an end user *if* they have a need for these names, and ImageMagick is
not already available.  This option should *not* be enabled for any
binary distribution.

Bob

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Cristy wrote:

> Bob is right, there is nothing in the license that prevents him from using
> the ImageMagick utility names but it is clearly anti-social behavior after
> the ImageMagick group asked him not to use them and supported our request
> with details on the subsequent confusion GraphicsMagick may cause by using
> the same names as the ImageMagick utility.  So there is nothing further we
> can do other than to bring to the attention of the user community the
> anti-social behavior of the GraphicsMagick Group as detailed here:
>
>   http://www.imagemagick.org/www/GraphicsMagick.html
>
> We hope the GraphicsMagick group will reconsider and stay with their
> original utility `gm` instead of usurping the ImageMagick utility names
> and causing unecessary confusion to the ImageMagick user community.

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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected]
http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen



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