Yes!  The end to all GD-related configure problems!  Can we put the GIF
support back too, please? :-)

 - Stig

On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 00:26, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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