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GNU Photo

  1. What is GNU Photo?
  2. Why is it called GNU Photo?
  3. License
  4. What's new in the current release?
  5. Supported Platforms
  6. Obtaining GNU Photo
  7. Getting help with GNU Photo
  8. Further information
  9. How to Help with GNU Photo

gphoto has been decommissioned; this page remains for historical purposes. For current photo support, we recommend gphoto2, which is an independently developed free software program not officially part of GNU (despite the name).

What is GNU Photo?

GNU Photo is free software for retrieving, organizing, web-authoring and storing images in various graphics file formats, or for display directly to a monitor from a range of supported digital still cameras.

Why is it called GNU Photo?

GNU Photo is endorsed by and part of the GNU Project.

License

The entire GNU Photo tree is licensed under the GNU General Public License. In order to help enforce this policy, make sure that all of the camera libraries and utility code that you submit for inclusion in GNU Photo have a clearly stated license and copyright owner. If you are an active maintainer of a GNU Photo library, you could have an account on GNU machines. Contact [email protected], if you don't have one.

P: Maintainer
E: Email to mail patches to
M: Mailing list that is relevant to this area
W: Web-page with status/info
C: Copyright holders
L: License
S: Status, one of the following:

	Supported:	Someone is paid to look after this.
	Maintained:	Someone looks after it.
	Odd Fixes:	It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
			much other than throw the odd patch in.  See below.
	Orphan:		No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the
			role as you write your new code].
	Obsolete:	Old code.  Something tagged obsolete generally means
			it has been replaced by a better system and you
			should be using that.

CANON (USB & RS232)
P:	Philippe Marzouk
E:	[email protected]
M:	[email protected]
C:	Wolfgang G. Reissnegger
	Werner Almesberger
	Philippe Marzouk
	Mikael Nystr�m
	Edouard Lafargue
L:	GNU General Public License
S:	Obsolete

FUJI DS-x/DX-x/MX-x, APPLE QUICKTAKE, SAMSUNG KENOX, LEICA DIGILUX (RS232)
P:	Matthew G. Martin
E:	[email protected]
M:	[email protected]
C:	Matthew G. Martin
L:	GNU General Public License
S:	Odd fixes

KODAK DC-240/DC-280 (RS232 & USB)
P:	David Brownell
E:	[email protected]
M:	[email protected]
W:	http://home.pacbell.net/david-b/digicam/
C:	Randy Scott (generic gphoto library)
	David Brownell (Linux USB driver)
L:	GNU General Public License
S:	Maintained

KONICA (RS232)
P:	Lutz M�ller
E:	[email protected]
M:	[email protected]
W:
C:	Free Software Foundation
L:	GNU General Public License
S:	Obsolete

NIKON COOLPIX 600 (RS232)
P:	Michael McCormack
E:	[email protected]
M:	[email protected]
W:	http://www.ozemail.com.au/~mccormac/dsc.c
C:	Michael McCormack
L:	GNU General Public License
S:	Odd fixes

MINOLTA DIMAGE V (RS232)
P:	A Gustav Hartmann
E:	[email protected]
M:	[email protected]
W:	http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~hartmann/
C:	A Gustav Hartmann
L:	GNU General Public License
S:	Obsolete

MUSTEK MDC800 (RS232 & USB)
P:	Henning Zabel
E:	[email protected]
M:	[email protected]
W:
C:	Henning Zabel
L:	GNU General Public License
S:	Odd fixes

PANASONIC DC1000/DC1580 (RS232)
P:	Mariusz Zynel
E:	[email protected]
M:	[email protected]
W:	http://www.df.lth.se/~roubert/dc1000/
C:	Mariusz Zynel  (gPhoto port)
	Fredrik Roubert  (idea)
	Galen Brooks  (DC1580 code)
L:	GNU General Public License
S:	Odd fixes

PHILIPS
P:	Bob Paauwe
E:	[email protected]
M:	[email protected]
W:	http://www.jps.net/bpaauwe/free/philips/
C:	Bob Paauwe
L:	GNU General Public License
S:	Odd fixes

RICOH 300Z
P:	Clifford Wright
E:	[email protected]
M:	[email protected]
C:	Clifford Wright
	Eric S. Raymond (Draw Text code)
L:	GNU General Public License (GPL)
S:	Odd fixes

RICOH RDC-2E
P:	Brian Miller
E:	[email protected]
M:	http://www.netspace.net.au/~bmiller/linux/rdc2e
C:	Brian Miller
	Gary S. Brown (crctab)
L:	GNU General Public License
S:	Odd fixes

SAMSUNG
P:	James McKenzie
E:	[email protected]
M:	http://bullard.esc.cam.ac.uk/~james/digimax.html
C:	James McKenzie
L:	GNU General Public License
S:	Odd fixes

SONY DSC-F55 (RS232)
P:	Mark Davies
E:	[email protected]
M:	[email protected]
C:	Mark Davies
L:	GNU General Public License
S:	Odd fixes

What's new in the current release?

The current version number is 0.5.8-pre.

Supported Platforms

Obtaining GNU Photo

See the software page for information on obtaining GNU Photo, GNOME and other GNU software.

Getting help with GNU Photo

Manuals

Mailing Lists

<gphoto at gphoto dot org>
Send mail to <gphoto-subscribe at gphoto dot org> to subscribe.
Send mail to <gphoto-unsubscribe at gphoto dot org> to unsubscribe.
<gphoto-devel at gphoto dot org>
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Send mail to <gphoto-devel-unsubscribe at gphoto dot org> to unsubscribe.

Further information

There is a web site dedicated to support the free software community on http://www.gphoto.org/

How to Help with GNU Photo

To get in touch with the maintainers of GNU Photo, either to report a bug or to contribute fixes or improvements, send mail to <gphoto-maint at bugzilla.gnome.org>.

Todo List

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Updated: 11 Mar 2001 ole