Enhancement: consider HEIC support via libde265 (LGPL)+Kvazaar (BSD)

lovell / sharp-libvips

Packaging scripts to prebuild libvips and its dependencies - you're probably looking for https://github.com/lovell/sharp

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Enhancement: consider HEIC support via libde265 (LGPL)+Kvazaar (BSD) #248

Open DimitarNestorov opened 5 days ago

DimitarNestorov commented 5 days ago

libheif already supports them and they're not GPL licensed

lovell commented 5 days ago

For HEIC the limiting factor is HEVC patents rather than software licences. The prebuilt binaries will only support patent-encumbered codecs that are made available on a royalty-free basis. HEVC is not royalty-free.