Hello,
I noticed some bugs about dealing with TIFF images (see https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126152 for the meta).
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF, TIFF is quite complex, I quote:
"TIFF is a complex format, defining many tags of which typically only a few are used in each file. This led to implementations supporting very varying subsets of the format, a situation that gave rise to the joke that TIFF stands for Thousands of Incompatible File Formats.".
So in https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/133108, I wondered if we could use Libtiff. Of course as Tomaž indicated it'll need lots of work. However Mike pointed out Luboš' commit about Webp to take example
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=60eaa424c5e213f31227008e1ed66a646491a360
("support for the WebP image format (tdf#114532)")
which can be a start.
But before this, is libtiff license compatible?
I mean, I retrieved source code of libtiff and m4/acinclude.m4 indicates (from line 192):
dnl This program is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it
dnl under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the
dnl Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
or (at your
dnl option) any later version.
If I remember well, GPL isn't sufficient, we also need LGPL, don't we?
Julien
PS : it's just a question for devs who would be interested in
doing the porting, I wouldn't be able to do this myself.
