Facelift critical - don't use it.

So I was telling you how great a image text replacement library Facelift is. However, I've been dealing with it in the past couple of hours as there was bugs in the beta files.

After taking a look at the codes and also at the forum over at Mawhorter.net, I don't mean to be prejudice but the code is not great and the creator doesn't seem to be fixing much of the bugs in good time.

A huge amount of coding has problems with it and a lot of people have contributed fixes.

Anyway, it's a project that seems to be maintained when I feel like it.

Not to mention, this is the killer part, that Facelift is licensed under GPL v3. I don't think GPL is suitable for any web programming libraries, it needs to be LGPL or lesser restrictive and viral ones. AFAIK it means if you use Facelift you have to also make 'avaliable' the rest of the coding. Which just doesn't work well.

Someone should do a better version.

Later

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