[NCLUG] Image Crop Tool?

[Bob Proulx]

Kasey Erickson wrote:
> > Picasa doesn't have a native GNU/Linux port though....
> 
> True.

Working through wine isn't the end of the world.  But from a
philosophy point of view I don't think it is the best thing since it
paints free software operating systems such as GNU/Linux as a second
class citizen.  It is at a severe disadvantage that way and it isn't
available for non-x86 hardware.  If there is a choice between two
possibilities and one is native and one is a ms-windows emulation
through wine then I think the native free software tool wins hugely
even if the ms-windows version works through wine okay.  For example
think about running on an ARM based system that doesn't have wine
support.

> > ... and requires wine to run, right?
> 
> Wine is not required as an external package.  Just "Glibc 2.3.2 or
> greater, and a working X11 display system"
> (http://picasa.google.com/linux/).  The wine emulator is built in
> (http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2006052601826NWSWRL).
> 
> Works great for me and very fast.

Since you are giving it a good recommendation I will check it out.
Thanks for suggesting it.

However trying to see what license it uses isn't easy.  I couldn't
find anything on the web site that would tell me.  I downloaded a
precompiled package and the summary was non-free/graphics.  That
doesn't look encouraging.  Looking through more I found a snippet that
said: "The Picasa product is licensed to you under a specific
agreement which you will be required to agree to when you first run
Picasa."  That looks even less encouraging.  It seems to use a lot of
other free software project's software and so that implies that it
should be free itself too.  I am sure it is a polyglot of licenses
when I finally get down to it, which is common of a lot of big
projects and okay.  But it must not be entirely free software.  So
better or not I am less interested in it.

Regardless I thank you for suggesting it.  It is obviously working
well for you and I appreciate the information!

Bob