IMHO the same sense why you think it's good to put a GD fork
into PHP. There are still users out there wo need this
format. Now that we're on the steering while of GD we can
make it less painless for them to use it ("PHP: ease of use,
blabla") ... don't you think it might be a good idea?
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:53:49PM -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote :
> Well, I don't actually see a license problem for non-LZW compressed gifs.
> But I am still not sure supporting GIF is a productive thing to do. The
> format needs to die. No sense helping it stay alive.
>
> -Rasmus
>
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Markus Fischer wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 07:36:06AM +0200, Stig S. Bakken wrote :
> > > Yes! The end to all GD-related configure problems! Can we put the GIF
> > > support back too, please? :-)
> >
> > Wanted to ask the same :) But how's about this licensing
> > problem, don't we run into trouble if we put GIF support in?
> > Or would it be legal to put the code in, disable it by
> > default and explicitely state 'only use it when you've got a
> > license' (and, I'm talking about writing LZW Gifs).
> >
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