Guys, I have had enough of the GD configuration nightmare and the fact that it has taken 6+ months for the Boutell folks to incorporate various patches that have been sent their way.
I propose that we roll the GD library into PHP, apply the various outstanding patches and default to building from the bundled library much like we do with MySQL. I think GD is a popular enough extension for PHP that it would be extremely cool to have decent truecolor GD2 support available for everyone. And we could go in and fix a couple of really annoying aspects as well as give the various graphics nuts a bit of a playground to come up with cool stuff. The GD license explicitly permits modifying and redistributing the library as long as we give proper attribution in user-accessible documentation, which is easy enough. The details of the license are here: http://www.boutell.com/gd/manual2.0.1.html#notice The important bit: Permission has been granted to copy, distribute and modify gd in any context without fee, including a commercial application, provided that this notice is present in user-accessible supporting documentation. This does not affect your ownership of the derived work itself, and the intent is to assure proper credit for the authors of gd, not to interfere with your productive use of gd. If you have questions, ask. "Derived works" includes all programs that utilize the library. Credit must be given in user-accessible documentation. Nice and sane. -Rasmus -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
