Paint applications and libraries: non-viral licenses

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Paint applications and libraries which use file-based or permissive licenses, excludes SVG and vector. A library may not necessarily correspond to the license of its related application.

Applications
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Libraries
  • graphics/gd - graphic draw. libgd is a library, which isn't for painting, however, I've seen it used that way, when used in conjunction with a scripting language. When used together with PHP, it's acted like ImageMagick-nox11. (MIT licensed)
  • graphics/libmypaint - for mypaint which is under GPL. (ISCL)
Utils
 
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👍 Thank you so very much!
I was looking for exactly something like that for years.
Believe it or not, but since I switched to FreeBSD I was missing this stupid, 'primitive' Microsoft Paint.

Most of the times I just need to do simple things with pictures: cut some part out, resize it, just place some text in it, or mark something with a simple line. 99% that's all I need.
For that I neither want, nor need to mess with all this complex things among zillions of tools with zillions of options, and features most graphic programs come with.
Gimp for sure is reference, very powerful, but for most of my painting needs total overkill. Of course, it's primarily meant to rework fotos, not for simple paint jobs.
xpaint comes close, but was not really satisfying me. tuxpaint I find too weird to use. like all others I tried so far. And before some one mentions it: No, I am also not going to install complete KDE just for to use KPaint, only. (At least last time I checked that were the dependencies coming with it. No, thank you.)

so, pinta!

Thanks!
 
Off topic to this thread, graphics/libbpg is better portable graphics which has comparable image quality to jpg in a smaller size. It's not widely supported, as in it hasn't gotten attention from Mozilla and isn't recognized by ImageMagick. This port is under BSD2Clause.
 
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