Well, as far as I understand it, simply reading an LZW compressed GIF would not violate the license. It is software that creates LZW-compressed GIF files that need to pay up. So, we could still support GIF and manipulate LZW-compressed files, but once we read it in and manipulate it, we would not be able to write out an LZW-compressed GIF. That means the GIF files created by PHP-GD would be much larger.
-Rasmus On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Edin Kadribasic 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. > > In the ideal world that would be true, but 90% of the web graphics files I > get from the designers and advertising agencies are still in the gif format. > There are still parts of the world where patent issues don't have an affect > anyway. As long as there is possibility to patch the php version of gd I'm > happy (http://www.rhyme.com.au/gd/). > > Anyway I think forking gd is an excellent idea. > > Edin > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
